Re: if you spot a bug, why dont you fix it, if you can??
> On Sunday 18 June 2006 14:06, Remo Giermann wrote:
> > > The subject is worded in a way that s not just out of place, it
> > > has no place. IMO !
>
> even on curiosa... :)
Still, it's the original topic what's wrong, not the subject.
In Poland, in the early 50s, a guy dared to call marshal Rokossovsky
a "russki" (="a russian" in russian). It was enough to be prosecuted
for "insulting the Polish nation" [1], a crime punishable in practice
by death. Yet, against all odds, an attorney managed to defend the
guy with a single sentence:
"And since when being a russki is bad?"
So, while obviously posting anything than includes "debian-niggers"
is not a good idea, you can't claim that the word "nigger" is an
insult. By claiming that, you state your belief that "a nigger" is
an inferior person.
And while a non-black[3] person should avoid this word, it's not an
insult until someone declares it to be one. Thus, removing it from
the subject is not "fixing a bug", but making the trolls win.
Cheers and schtuff,
1KB
[1]. An explanation how addressing a member of government can be
"insulting the nation", especially if said member doesn't know more
than a few words in Polish[2] is left as an exercise to the reader.
[2]. Being a foreigner is not something bad, getting put by the
occupation forces as a member of the government is what is bad.
Together with being guilty of putting to death most polish
("allied"!) pre-war officers and quenching peaceful protests in a way
that makes Tianan-men look like a picnic [Poznań 1956, Warsaw 1956].
<followup-to: Wikipedia talk page, not debian-curiosa. I hope that merely
stating facts can be non-trollish, but again: don't discuss this HERE>
[3]. I do consider "african american" to be offensive, and never use
that handle.
--
1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor:
// Never attribute to stupidity what can be
// adequately explained by malice.
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