I generally don't get your allegations about Cherokee Server logo Zachary... It's completelly ridiculous for me...
++ for Ivan mail... Pozdrawiam Jędrzej Nowak On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Iván Chavero <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's just a logo man!! > > I'm from México but i kind of familiarized with the pollitical correctness > that some part of the US citizens practice. It is good in a sense, but > sometimes it just goes too far. Your mail looks like if it was taken out > from a joke from a cherokee stand up comedian. It's so irrelevant compared > to the fact that those guys are living in reservations because the white man > invaded thier lands. > If you care that much about the rights of american indians you should be > pleading for the return of the land to their rightfull owners (and since > you'll be doing that you sould plead also for the return of Texas, > California and Nuevo México to México). > > Or at least you could donate your efforts to the cherokee nation web site > (cherokee.org) in order to migrate them to a more robust platform than > windows 2003 server with IIS (Linux + Cherokee perhaps?) > > Really, you should be doing more interesting things with your time, instead > of whining about how offensive the logo is, you sould design one that you > consider not offensive and send it to the mailing list. this is free > sowftware ain't it? > > > El 08/10/10 10:06, Zachary Krebs escribió: > > Please consider removing it or changing it. For some context, there is a > huge dispute in N. America about people using Native American > symbols/logos/caricatures in popular culture to demean or otherwise > insinuate that indigenous people are fast, quirky, half-witted, lesser-than, > etc. The entire idea of naming web servers after Native People (for no > reason) and then having logos from their cultural background makes little > sense. Perhaps you could consider redesigning your logo to use something > other than a caricature of a person? Also posted this to the Hiawatha forum, > which has a similar issue. > > http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/forum/topic/686 > > Sincerely, > > Zachary Krebs > > Voice:(541) 708-1163 > Skype: ZacharyKrebs > > > _______________________________________________ > Cherokee mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee > > > _______________________________________________ > Cherokee mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee > > _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
