Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

[p <pplaw@pcisys.net>]

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:lazarus@overdue.ddts.net] 
> >  > > 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.
 
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> 
(thanks anyway.)
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