> Instead of "diabetic", try inserting the word "black" or "female". > There's no shame in those either, yet I think that the offensiveness > of either of those words used in that context should be obvious.
To take it a little further, what if I said I got gypped. I think it goes to gypsy's. Was it racist? Reneged has always been renegotiable, yet one time I accidently said to a good black friend of mine that something was nig rigged, and thought it meant negotiably rigged, but it wasn't racist. Recently, I told a guy to ramit, because his name or pseudo name, I thought, was ramit, and got called a racist for it. It seems that we get too politically correct when we want to cherry pick a comment for propaganda against someone. Sometimes it's just ridiculous. -- Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list