[nfb-talk] Can we please stop the political discussion on this list?

[Heather Field]

Hello all,
In my experience, if there was something that wasn't specifically a 
blindness issue, such as just about everything that has been discussed over 
the last few days on this list, under the subject heading, "here he comes", 
then doctor Jernigan encouraged people to go out into their communities and 
join with the sighted people who were also interested in said topics. Is 
their some reason why you folks interested in the current political evens 
can't do that?
There are a lot of people on this list who are fed up with having to scroll 
through the e-mails on the Trump presidency and delete them. Is it so much 
to ask that people take their politics and presidential preferences and 
discuss them on appropriate e-mail lists with other people who are 
interested in such discussions. Hasn't it occurred to people that they are 
inconveniencing the majority of their fellow listers with this continued 
discussion of off-topic noise.
A civil request from the moderator seems to have accomplished nothing by way 
of getting the politics discussions stopped.
I'm sure I'm speaking for the busy, silent majority on this list when I'm 
asking folks to please stop using this list as an opportunity to express 
your political views and argue with each other about who has the right to 
believe what or live where. How about our rights? We signed up to a list to 
discuss blindness and NFB related topics. Is it too much to ask people to 
respect the purpose of the list and all of us who want the list to remain 
blindness and NFB related? Are their not enough discussion boards and 
listservs and Facebook and Twitter feeds on the whole of the internet that 
you must hijack this list as well to impose the expression of your personal 
opinions on those who don't wish to waste our time with them? Can you please 
just stop? Please? Please?
Respectfully,
Heather




-----Original Message----- 
From: David Andrews via NFB-talk
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 4:17 PM
To: NFB Talk Mailing List
Cc: David Andrews
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Proposal: chat list

No, I would rather be a geek!

Dave

At 02:23 PM 1/23/2017, you wrote:
>I'm terribly sorry... I think the *nerds* at the NFB should create a chat 
>list. Happy now?
>On 01/23/2017 02:10 PM, David Andrews via nfb-talk wrote:
>>Who is calling me a geek.
>>
>>I will think about it!
>>
>>Dave
>>
>>At 01:56 PM 1/23/2017, you wrote:
>>>I think the geeks at the NFB should create a chat list where nothing
>>>is off topic. Then we could take this political stuff there and stop
>>>bothering people who don't want to see it. I volunteer to be moderator
>>>if you need that.


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