Bug#526613: wiki.debian.org: offensive icon

[Simon Raven <simon.raven@gmail.com>]

Package: wiki.debian.org
Severity: normal


http://wiki.debian.org/Portal/IDB?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=icon-community-32x32.png

The title attribute IDs it as "Portal/IDB/icon-community-32x32.png".

This icon is a) stereotyping so-called "North American" Indigenous
peoples, and I would highly recommend and demand that this icon be
changed. I don't see why a stereotype of us should be used to represent
community. I'm sure non-Indigenous people have communities too, and have
a sense of community, why should we be made an example in such a
negative way? Sure we have a lot to offer the rest of the non-Indigenous
world, and have, a LOT, but hey, don't keep up the false images. We
don't all live in tipis on Great Turtle Island ("North America"), you know.

Thanks for your time,

simon


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (995, 'unstable'), (990, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash