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Re: Code of Conduct complaint about Linus's comments at DC14 :: Respect

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:06:08AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, "Barak A. Pearlmutter" <barak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > My own conjecture is that one reasons many people have a visceral
> > negative reaction to formal mechanisms like CoCs is that humour can be
> > an inadvertent victim.  Certainly I like to see someone toss out the
> > occasional "Zol vaksen fun pipik a tsibelis."
> 
> The discussion of humor in such contexts usually seems to involves jokes about 
> minority groups.  Are jokes about your minority groups funny?  If so can you 
> give us some examples?

http://xkcd.com/306/
http://xkcd.com/424/
http://xkcd.com/456/
http://xkcd.com/797/

Unless we're no longer a minority group ...

And yes, not everyone might find all of those equally funny.
I welcome that diversity.



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