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

[Kendra Schaber]

I think that's why the proposal of an NFB chat list was conceived. That way, all who do wish to talk politics can bring it over there instead of keeping it here. 
Blessed be!!! 
Kendra 


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> On Jan 23, 2017, at 17:30, Heather Field via nfb-talk <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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