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Re: [PATCH] Revert Abortion joke removal.
On May 8, 2018, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org> wrote:
> On 05/08/2018 11:20 PM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> The insulting part is seeing (and posting as part of the patch) the "Do
>> not remove", not asking him or even letting him know, and putting the
>> change in despite the "Do not remove" objection, as if it wasn't even
>> there. Not as if his opinion was like anyone else's, but as if it
>> didn't even count.
> No that's not an insult Alex. You're once again attributing to malice
> what can be attributed to oversight.
Having often been on the delivering side of allegedly-insulting remarks,
I learned it doesn't take speaker's malice for the listener to be
justifiably insulted.
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