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Re:Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out by okamiueru on Thursday March 21, 2013 @05:52AM (#5413955)
You cannot take into consideration erroneous assumptions or false knowledge.

Based on what words mean, and the definition of terms (see the comment you replied to), it doesn't matter if someone interpreted it wrong. Anyone can always interpret something wrong and find themselves offended. But that's all on them. It's not productive to go around worrying about that.

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Re:Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday March 21, 2013 @08:02AM (#5414446)
"wrong", "erroneous", "false" are strong terms (IMHO, far too strong) for someone having a different perspective and history of dealing with such comments. And IMHO it is productive to try to understand these perspectives.
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Re:Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out by metaphorm on Thursday March 21, 2013 @10:52AM (#5415394)
a person's perspective is not a free pass on matters of factuality. a fact is a fact, regardless of any person's perspective.

you may be right that we should try to understand why a person has developed a false understanding of reality, but we should not accept that their own misunderstanding of facts in any way makes their false beliefs into truths.

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