Because no one else will say it _I_ will. Please refrain from having these sorts of email discussions on the SLUG mailing lists.
Lots of people just end up being offended and it does nothing to make SLUG appealing for those subscribed to the list. Thanks James 2009/3/22 Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:07:08PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: >>Alan L Tyree <[email protected]> writes: >>>On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:29:32 +1100 >>>Sonia Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>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 > > As a native Spanish speaker, I'll take offense if someone calls me > tonto. BTW, I've spoken to Sonia in Spanish and she speaks that language > very well. > >>>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. > > When I was a little kid, I couldn't understand why the loyal American > Indian was call "stupid" (tonto/tonta == stupid). The idea burnt in my > young brain was that all the American indians (from Tierra del Fuego in > Argentina to Alaska) were all stupid people for the USAians. > > BTW (again), I also don't understand why the USA is call America. I'm > from Colombia and I'm an American. The continent is called America and > don't tell me it's call Americas. > >>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. > > Aye. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
