"A polluting person is always in the wrong" (IRC, 2024)See the my presentation at the EmacsConf2024. <edrx> for me the central point is another one. I explained it at the end of this e-mail: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-10/msg00093.html <edrx> for many people sexps cannot be mixed with text without warning - that pollutes a tutorial, or instructions, or whatever, and makes them unsuitable to be shown to beginners <edrx> a few days ago a friend of mine told me how her uncle was her favorite person - but he was a tranvestite, and he was executed together with two other transvestite friends in 2006 <edrx> by a paramilitary group that decided to "clean the city" <edrx> sometimes I suggest things like: copy the sexp (info "(emacs)Init file") to your notes and execute it <edrx> and then some people get REALLY ANGRY <edrx> these same people have even told me that we shouldn't even include links like http://anggtwu.net/eev-intros/find-eev-quick-intro.html#2 in LISTS of materials for beginners <edrx> why? <edrx> that's what I want to understand <edrx> at this moment the best idea that I have is that this MAY BE related to some ideas of frontiers and pollution that were studied by some anthropologists <edrx> here is another quote from Mary Douglas, also taken from Judith Butler's "Purity and Danger": <edrx> ...It follows from this that pollution is a type of danger which is not likely to occur except where the lines of structure, cosmic or social, are clearly defined. <edrx> A polluting person is always in the wrong. He (...) has developed some wrong condition or simply crossed over some line which should not have been crossed and this displacement unleashes danger for someone. |