On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:11 AM, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 15, 1:10 pm, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Prasad, Ramit >> > Since I was unsure myself if you were trying to be offensive or racist, >> > I would disagree with "everyone can know it wasn't meant as racist". >> >> If you're unsure if it was racist, you should err on the side of >> caution. > > If your comments are mistakable as racism, maybe *you* should be more > cautious and *not make them*.
That applies to the most obvious examples (for instance, there's a line in a 19th century opera that uses a six-letter word starting with 'n' to refer to a dark-skinned person - for obvious reasons, that line is usually changed in modern performances, even though it was descriptive and not offensive when the opera was written - like referring to a Caucasian). However, there are many things which could be misinterpreted as racist, and I would hate to see people leaned hard on to make their speech entirely politically correct. Use common sense, on both sides. Don't be offensive, and don't be offended. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
