Yes, and I answered your question about where the pattern of using “minorities” as it was used there came from.
> This isn't about society, it's about a website with worldwide access using anonymous usernames.
How is that not part of society?
> Nobody is inherently disadvantaged.
The issue with disadvantaged, underrepresented, and/or marginalized groups has very little to do with inherent disadvantage, and the suggestion that it centrally is about that is fairly broadly offensive, since it implies that such groups are generally inherently inferior.
> The exact issue is harsh replies and actions that stem from the gamification dynamics and strict moderation.
Whether or not that’s true, it had nothing to do with the question you posed and I answered, so I don't see why it is being offered in response.
> Law is based on provable damages,
True.
> which is why it's particularly focused on physical harm.
This is far less true.
> Your feelings are not included in that.
Yes, they are included in the scope of legally cognizable harms. While the eggshell rules name references physical vulnerability, civil and criminal law address (and the eggshell rule applies to) emotional injuries, as well.
> Experiencing an emotion is not damage.
Torts like those of intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress demonstrate the falsitt of this generalization of the law, as does the “suffering” part of “pain and suffering” damages in other torts.
Why are you even discussing tort law? Feelings are not damage. Has your emotional psyche has been permanently affected leading to challenges in how you function and cope in life? Feeling sad or frustrated or annoyed because your question was downvoted is not emotional distress. And what does this have to do with Stackoverflow? What's the duty of a commenter? How do you know the intent? Who's getting traumatized by that site specifically?
You're reaching here and if you are more affected than average by comments from other people (on SO or life in general) then perhaps you should work on that instead of claiming emotional suffering.
As I expressly stated, to demonstrate that two moral principals that contradict claims made upthread are well established in our society: (1) that the particular sensitivity of a victim to harm from a particular wrong doesn't mitigate the wrongdoers responsibility for the harm, and (2) that experiencing adverse emotional states is a harm.
I should preface this by saying this isn't directed at the parent I'm replying to. It's just the point where I couldn't read anymore without posting. What is offensive is Stack Overflow using this obsequious, cloying, patronizing language and false equivalence -- that women/PoC are broadly inexperienced ("newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups") -- to virtue signal for more clicks and advertising dollars, or to push their recruiting effort. I find Stack Overflow's post shockingly distasteful. It takes a lot to offend me, but this is disgusting.
And couldn't they find a better person in this tech company to deliver this message than a white dude VP?
Then they explain that this is really, actually happening because the marginalized groups "do feel less welcome... because they tell us" (emphasis mine). Do these marginalized groups know how everyone else feels? Have the marginalized-but-anonymous users invented a telepathy device with which to gauge their feelings against others?
Please demonstrate how any Stack Overflow user can know that they feel something more or less than any other user.
It lumps them together in the same breath, obviously hoping to draw an equivalence in the minds of readers in order to make their preposterous proposition less offensive. Wielding identity politics as a means of creating marketing buzz is flatly vile.
Yes, and I answered your question about where the pattern of using “minorities” as it was used there came from.
> This isn't about society, it's about a website with worldwide access using anonymous usernames.
How is that not part of society?
> Nobody is inherently disadvantaged.
The issue with disadvantaged, underrepresented, and/or marginalized groups has very little to do with inherent disadvantage, and the suggestion that it centrally is about that is fairly broadly offensive, since it implies that such groups are generally inherently inferior.
> The exact issue is harsh replies and actions that stem from the gamification dynamics and strict moderation.
Whether or not that’s true, it had nothing to do with the question you posed and I answered, so I don't see why it is being offered in response.
> Law is based on provable damages,
True.
> which is why it's particularly focused on physical harm.
This is far less true.
> Your feelings are not included in that.
Yes, they are included in the scope of legally cognizable harms. While the eggshell rules name references physical vulnerability, civil and criminal law address (and the eggshell rule applies to) emotional injuries, as well.
> Experiencing an emotion is not damage.
Torts like those of intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress demonstrate the falsitt of this generalization of the law, as does the “suffering” part of “pain and suffering” damages in other torts.