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PS You might want to lookup what "tonto" means [1] before you go
around calling people it. It was a term of disrespect for
Amerindians
on the US/Mexican border in the 1800's. At least be grammatically
correct, and call me "tonta" :-p [1]
http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/tonto
For anyone born in the US during the last century, as I was, Tonto is
the Lone Ranger's faithful Indian companion. When we were kids, it
was
worth fighting to be Tonto rather than the paleface. It's probably no
longer politically correct, but for different reasons than those
mentioned.
Uh, no. That would be inappropriate for *exactly* the reason
mentioned,
which is to say that it is an insulting racial epithet. The fact that
it was used in that sense on television doesn't change those facts.
So, just because the term was not seen as insulting doesn't make it
any
less insulting — just like "paleface" is.
lol Do we really need to concern ourselves with Political Correctness
BS? Why can't we leave that crud for such trivial places like the
workplace? This is a Linux group not Political correctness R us.
Can we please get back to discussing Linux? Now get back on topic
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