Chocobo_greens wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2001 07:47:15 -0500, Jonas Jørgensen wrote: > > >>Chocobo_greens wrote: >> >> >>>Why on earth did the developers choose such a blatantly political (and >>>many cases offensive) symbol? is their intention to offend or insult? >>>millions of people have been killed in the name of that symbol, even >>>today thousands others are brutally slaughtered and here we see a >>>group for some strange reason embracing this. There are places where >>>the presence of a red star makes you a pariah, do you not want these >>>people to use mozilla? for no falut of their own.. >>> >>>Is mozilla communist or are the developers? or are they just sick >>>individuals who think it is funny that people have died? you should at >>>least have the decency to have version without the political images. >>> >> >>You seem to be confused about what communism is. Communists think that >>everyone should be equal and that noone should be allowed to have >>billions of dollars on their bank account when other people can't even >>afford food to eat or a place to sleep. The terrible régime in the >>Soviet Union had very little to do with communism. Unfortunately almost >>everybody in America think about death, violence and terror when they >>hear the word communism. >> > > no actually i am not confused , and this discussion is not about politics but about > options. I am fully aware of the utopian idead of communism (as you put > it). > That brings me back to my point though, the Redstar may not necessarily > be the symbol of "communism" but is the symbol of those who killed > million in its name today and in the past. > Which is even more reason to get rid of the icon. If mozilla must have a > red star, they can make it look non communist too.
Fine, but then you should stop saying things like "communist still murder thousands in the world under the red star". /Jonas
