Hector Martin

However, what @drtune pointed out, really going back to the previous thread we had, is that there's a very real problem of "treading on eggshells" when discussing these issues. Between people who broadly agree on social views, it's easy to let small differences of opinion amplify

Really I think there was just a significant impedance mismatch between intent (pushing back for a joke in poor taste) and how it came across (assumption of malice). This is yet another example where the terseness of Twitter really doesn't help.

I think to some extent vague jabs are OK? Obviously ignoring that he was hurting people unintentionally. If that weren't the case, it just boils down to "I use a big comical knife to open my packages and [carefully, though] cut towards myself as a jab towards knife safety".