* Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020313 18:34]: > 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.
Well, after reading the bug report, it looks like the statement in question was included in irssi-scripts as a kickreason. Meaning, when you kicked someone out of a channel, it might randomly say to the kickee and everyone in the channel "I'm kicking you out of the channel because 'yo family's so black.'" If there's a word in the dictionary that defines that better than racist, please enlighten us all. Vineet -- Currently seeking opportunities in the SF Bay Area Please see http://www.doorstop.net/resume/
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