Unless your position that any statement whatsoever made in the second person that isn't a compliment is then an attack?
San Francisco is a magical place where "you are doing X wrong" without slathering on six paragraphs of fake kindness constitutes some kind of personal attack
In no sane culture is an engineering assessment made in the second person a personal attack. You'd call "you are holding the screwdriver wrong" a personal attack too.
He is, in fact, not mitigating the attack, and he is, in fact, by calling his non-workaround a mitigation, encouraging people to do ineffective things instead of patching. These facts remain true in the real world regardless of what you call a personal attack.
And yes, San Francisco has become top of the world for indirect fake kindness that transforms plain factual statements about the world into social offenses.
"The sun is bright. Don't look at it " -- RUDE!
"You might want to consider that the sun might be considered bright to some people and that you might be more comfortable looking at this other cool thing instead. But no pressure" -- gruff, barely tolerable
There's no personal attack here.
Unless your position that any statement whatsoever made in the second person that isn't a compliment is then an attack?
San Francisco is a magical place where "you are doing X wrong" without slathering on six paragraphs of fake kindness constitutes some kind of personal attack
"You're working on a false sense of security and encouraging others to do the same" was needlessly personal.
You can make your substantive points without that, both in San Francisco and elsewhere.
In no sane culture is an engineering assessment made in the second person a personal attack. You'd call "you are holding the screwdriver wrong" a personal attack too.
He is, in fact, not mitigating the attack, and he is, in fact, by calling his non-workaround a mitigation, encouraging people to do ineffective things instead of patching. These facts remain true in the real world regardless of what you call a personal attack.
And yes, San Francisco has become top of the world for indirect fake kindness that transforms plain factual statements about the world into social offenses.
"The sun is bright. Don't look at it " -- RUDE!
"You might want to consider that the sun might be considered bright to some people and that you might be more comfortable looking at this other cool thing instead. But no pressure" -- gruff, barely tolerable
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