On 11/19/17 20:48, Rhialto wrote: >> I still think that we should remove offensive quotes, and if people >> cannot agree on it, all of fortune. > > It isn't even so much that they are "offensive" as such. It is just that > out there in the Real World, you Simply Do Not Quote Adolf Hitler, at > least not without embedding it in proper historical context and making > absolutely clear that we're talking about a really horrible person, etc > etc. Those are all things way outside the scope of fortune(1), so those > quotes have no place there.
I have never encountered an adult to whom I had to explain that Hitler was a horrible person. In fact, his name is kind of semi-uniquely tied to the attribute of being a horrible person. And if I were to encounter such a person, I think there's something wrong with them which removing Hitler quotes from the NetBSD fortune database will not fix. > Why this is so difficult to understand for intelligent persons, I don't > know. I think you may better understand it if you consider that "Hitler was bad" is always the default context, regardless of whatever the isolated quote from him is. -- Kind regards, Jan Danielsson
