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As I'm sure many people in the Haskell community have seen, Simon PJ put out an email entitled "Respect". If you haven't read it yet, I think you should. As is usually the case, Simon shows by example what we should strive for.
I put out a Tweet referring to a Gist I wrote two weeks back. At the time, I did not put the content on this blog, as I didn't want to make a bad situation worse. However, especially given Simon's comments, now seems like a good time to put out this message in the same medium (this blog) that the original inflammatory messaging came out in:
A few weeks back I wrote a blog post (and a second clarifying post) on what I called the Evil Cabal. There is no sense in repeating the content here, or even referencing it. The title is the main point.
It was a mistake, and an offensive one, to use insulting terms like evil in that blog post. What I said is true: I have taken to using that term when discussing privately some of the situation that has occured. I now see that that was the original problem: while the term started as a joke and a pun, it set up a bad precedent for conversation. I should not have used it privately, and definitely should not have publicized it.
To those active members in projects I maligned, I apologize. I should not have brought the discourse to that level.