On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:10:46PM -0800, Petro wrote: > 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.
b.s.! making fun of someone else's skin color is patently wrong, and i don't care how you want to slice it or garnish it with "red herring": > > 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. > ...(i'm gonna let that one pass.) just because there isn't a "crystalline" standard as to racist statements doesn't mean that "anything goes." (even "free speech" has limits.) any offical .deb with that type of stupidity is a waste of bandwidth. > -- > Share and Enjoy. > (thanks anyway.) > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
