Question. Who determins what should and shouldn't be? Who is "right"? If I don't find something offensive should everyone just ignore it? If someone else finds it offensive am I wrong? Maybe I'm not sensitive enough, maybe they're too sensitive, maybe it's not worth worryiing about. Maybe you should uninstall the program and write the auther a nasty letter.
I personally find redneck jokes great. I'm from the south, born and raised and I REALLY don't ever want to see my family tree. I love good inbred jokes about the south. Heck, my mom and dad are related a couple branches up. My wife and I are also (we found out after the marriage). Luckily my mom was adopted to there's no danger to my kids, but I still find the jokes funny. I take them as jokes not insults. If I find it insulting I ignore it or give the author direct crap. When I find something offensive, I go after the author who's responsible. Thus spake Lazarus Long ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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). > > > > When Debian starts making decisions about what is and isn't appropriate > > for our users to see, that's when I stop contributing. We should not be > > about censorship. > > > > ... Adam Conrad > > > > (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. > > -- > Please (OpenPGP) encrypt all mail whenever possible. Request the following > Public Keys for Lazarus Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Type Bits/KeyID Fingerprint DSA KeyID: vvvv vvvv > ElGamal: 2048g/CCB09D64 8270 4B79 CB1E 433B 6214 64EB 9D58 28A9 E8B1 27F4 :wq! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Harris | Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer | For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'