[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Farber (EED)) wrote:
>Bakki Kudva wrote:
>> Just look at the sports teams. You couldn't have a team called the
>> Washington Kikes or the Washington Micks. But yet you can have the
>> Washington Redskins and this Indian with a big nose and big lips running
>> around. How would you feel if it was the Washington Rabbis and you had a
>> guy with braids running around throwing bagels?
>
>Hey, that would be very funny! And I'm jewish.
It sounds like kind of a funny idea in theory, perhaps for a Saturday
Night Live skit, but how horrible it would be if this were actually
carried out with a real team and a real city.
>
>Guys, relax - I don't believe, that using feathers and/or Apache
>is offending anyone, esp. because it's a nice piece of software.
That may be right, but I live in a community with a lot of Native
Americans, I have a (pretty small) bit of Cherokee heritage myself, and
there's no way in hell I'm going to wear, in public, a shirt that uses
stereotypical Indian symbols to promote something as far removed as web
server software. It would feel like an affront on my chest.
Anyway, it seems the shirt isn't going toward this idea, so in that
sense the point is moot, but some of the discussion has really been
rubbing me the wrong way. I don't think it's proper for one person to
dictate the situations in which another person is supposed to take
offense, and the situations in which he/she shouldn't. That's not how
emotions work.
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