Re: [Callers] Progressive politics? Ha, ha

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015, Ron Blechner wrote: Whether "gypsy" is an offensive term and the figure name should be changed is an inherently political discussion, so no. (Ditto similar discussions about gender-free dancer terms.) For that matter, I would argue that discussions about how to handle harassment are political as well; at minimum, thirty or forty years ago, there would have been people arguing exactly as you are that we should avoid discussing them because they are political. What exactly are you objecting to? -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> "We've just found a line in a perl script that invokes a shell script to call a lisp program which invokes the very-same perl script." --anonymous