On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:04:14AM -0800, Lazarus Long wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:47:25AM -0700, Adam Conrad wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Lazarus Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:55 PM
> > > Yo family's so black, when they hold hands, it looks like a
> > > stretch limo.
> > > There's no excuse for racism in Debian.
> > So, your take is that Debian should censor upstream so we can be more
> > politically correct? If you don't appreciate the author's off-colour
> > humour, then don't use his script(s).
> > (PS: Yo mama so white, when she gets naked, yo daddy's retinas burn
> > clean off)
> Again, there is no excuse for racism in Debian. Other packages have
> elided the inappropriate material in the past, as they should. An IRC
> client has no business being racist. Debian is a distribution that
> specifically caters to children; note the debian-junior project. As it
> stands, your package is inappropriate to be on the box my daughter uses.
Any racism you perceive in either of those two statements is purely
your own ignorance and knee-jerk political correctness.
Main Entry: rac??ism
Pronunciation: 'rA-"si-z&m also -"shi-
Function: noun
Date: 1936
1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits
and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent
superiority of a particular race
2 : racial prejudice or discrimination
- rac??ist /-sist also -shist/ noun or adjective
and:
rac??ism Pronunciation Key (rszm)
n.
The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or
ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
Personally I find racism--as defined above--to be odious, ignorant
and inefficient, but that does not mean that *eveything* that
mentions the color of someone's skin is a racists statement.
You need a thicker skin.
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