"A polluting person is always in the wrong" (IRC, 2024)

<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.