Re:Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times
by otterley on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @07:34PM
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That unfairly burdens the target of the joke. And if you take pains not to offend your work colleagues, then the "don't be offended unnecessarily" half is far less likely to be an issue.
Re:Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times
by rootusrootus on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @01:34PM
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> if you take pains not to offend your work colleagues, then the "don't be offended unnecessarily" half is far less likely to be an issue.
I sort of agree, but not to the point where I think you can disregard the second half of the advice. For every person in the wild who is acting in bad faith, trolling, trying to be offensive, there is someone else on a hair trigger who takes offense to everything, who reads into every statement an underlying insult.
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Re:Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times
by BolexNOLA on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @01:36PM
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Holy shoehorn, batman.
Re:Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times
by phs318u on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @09:25PM
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Please define being a jerk, what constitutes offence, and the distinction between unnecessary and (implied) necessary offence.
Re:Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times
by rootusrootus on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @01:26PM
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Intent.
That's just the first half good advice. Don't be a jerk when you talk, don't be a jerk when you listen. Don't try to offend people unnecessarily, and don't be offended unnecessarily.
As soon as you decided that the only metric which matters is when someone is unnecessarily upset, offended, or whatever, everything was lost. In that case nobody can say anything.