Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at> writes: > On Do, 28 Nov 2013, Brian Gupta wrote: >> but I'll leave you with a quote from one of my favorite authors, which >> may help put things in perspective.: > [...] >> Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we >> replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with >> “treating >> other people with respect”, and it made me smile. > [...] > > I just tell a story > > A friend told me once a story why he prefers Austrians over ****** > (actual nationality deleted): Because ******* always speak nicely, > we like our neibours, immigrants are good for us, we welcome them, > etc etc. And then they burn their houses, bomb their meeting rooms. > Austrians are famous for hating all the foreigners, they are stealing > our jobs, they are putting the trash into the wrong boxes, they are > noisy. But hey, my neighbour, he is not like that, he is such a nice > guy and we hang out together all the time and often have long chats. > > I prefer to be on the side of those who speak maybe sometimes badly, > but act properly.
Arguably there's nothing wrong with that, but... > Those defending the attitude of political correctness are those > who are speaking nicely, but when it comes down to the person, > things change rapidly .. this doesn't follow from (or relate to) the first paragraph at all. It is nothing but a generalized and insulting assertion made by you. Best, Nikolaus -- Encrypted emails preferred. PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877gbroikn....@vostro.rath.org