On 2012-10-17, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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?
I told a girl friend once that my laptop had been purloined, and she thought I was maligning her cat. Maybe not the same thing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list