On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Sandi Fallon wrote:
> Edwin, the controversy was started when 'yellow', as applied to Yoko
> Ono, was censured. It was pointed out that if ethnic groups were
> protected from slurs, then those of a certain sexual preference should
> also enjoy the same.
Generally, I think that racism, in any of it's forms - should be
illegal, and should be strongly discouraged. (Bans might be too mild here.
*cough*)
> Tom, the scenario you propose could well be the case. The Grand
> Poobah has yet to comment. I'm asking you guys just to get an outside,
> generalised world perspective. Your suggestion about a channel won't
> help though, this became an issue after someone logged in with the
> name "AnalHOMO".
I'll stipulate for a second, that this is your general run-of-the-mill
hack'n'slash mud - which was set up for people to have fun hacking things
into little pieces. (IOW, no real theme to it)
In all (most, 99%) other cases, I'd expect there to be a statement during
name selection stating which rules your name would have to conform to -
which would have solved this issue.
On the other hand, you could tell him that "AnalHOMO" is redundant, since
the anal part is implied in the homosexual part...
Unless he was just saying he's a human ass. (cf. previous post with
definitions:)
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