Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
>>"Evan" == Evan Prodromou <evan@debian.org> writes:
>>>>> "MS" == Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
MS> We all know that the Linux kernel contains offensive
MS> language. Hell, lots of offensive language. It even prints out
MS> offensive language on certain conditions.
Evan> This raises an interesting point: is there a difference between cuss
Evan> words -- fuck, shit, damn, weenie -- and language that attacks or
Evan> insults a person or group of people? I would say yes.
So, some offensive speech does not offend you, so obviously it
should be treated differently? Doth not the ugly head of subjectivity
rear itself over the issue, as forewarned?
Who gets to decide where these distinctions are drawn? Is a
recipe for cooking the sacred mother cow less offensive than
scatological material? Are Raphael's nudes less offensive than
playboy center folds? Is anti-semiticism more or less abhorrent than
homophobic content?
manoj
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