Kevin Saenz <[email protected]> writes: Administratively, it would be nice if you could configure your emailer to use a standards compliant quoting mechanism rather than randomly indenting text.
It would be nice if you retained citation information, also, so that people could see who said what in the discussion. > [...] > >>>> 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? Do you mean to say "concern ourselves with this racism"? Yes, I think we do, and your attempts to avoid discussion by using invective are not really /helping/ convince me otherwise. > Why can't we leave that crud for such trivial places like the > workplace? Because racism, like any other "someone else sucks because of some random attribute", is disruptive, discourages contributions, and generally makes a lot of people quite unhappy. This is the same reason that attacking people because of their distribution of choice, their desktop environment of choice or any number of other attributes is bad. > This is a Linux group not Political correctness R us. Can we please > get back to discussing Linux? Now get back on topic Certainly. Nothing would please me more than to be discussing technical issues rather than listening to people insult others. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
