Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:11:39PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 14:24, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > I know people sometimes take the separation of church and state just a
> > little too far here in the US, but I have trouble believing that the
> > presence of a Bible in the school library, or an electronic copy of it
> > on a computer, would be any cause for controversy.
>
> In the library, perhaps not. OTOH, the library would also be expected
> to have copies of the Koran, I Ching, and so on as well. The school
> libraries I've seen that stock any of them are careful to have lots of
> diverse texts.
As they should. It's not called "being careful". It's called "being a good
library".
> Suppose that, by some mistake, all the teacher workstations were
> installed with a copy of the Bible, but no other religious literature.
I'm not even going to comment on how far-fetched this example is. You've
been watching too much "Boston Public".
> I don't disagree that a lot of it is ridiculous. It is, unfortunately,
> the reality of the situation. More ridiculous things have happened.
So instead of advocating against this type of stupidity, we should instead
build software that makes it easier for people to cow before the forces of
political correctness?
If you do that then you are catering to the lowest common denominator -- the
Lazarus Longs of the world, and not to the intelligent users who we want to
have using our distro.
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> <adam@flounder.net>
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