Re: [Staffslug] TSNK: Thou Shall Not Kill www.TSNK.org Font Repository Proposal
How do you even know he's of Asian descent? Perhaps he or she is a fellow
cracker who's decided that Hare Krishna is the path to enlightenment?
I'd say that assumption constitutes racism.
Jon
P.s I don't care either way. This is an effort to illustrate that bandying
the term "racism" around is dangerous in itself. In my opinion, it's used
far too often by those feeling that political correctness and not offending
others sensibilities (or lack of them) is a good thing to do.
On 3 November 2010 21:07, Tom <tom(a)ninjabadger.net> wrote:
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 09:41 +0000, Kevanf1 wrote:
> Hey fellow LUGeteers :-) I'm a touch concerned that we may be
> starting to get a bit racist with this thread. Step back and think
> how a newcomer to the LUG who happens to be of Asian descent might
> feel about some of the comments. I've taken the pee out of the
> 'campaign' to change a perfectly good letter of the alphabet, well,
> with my name I would :-) but I think we are starting to go beyond the
> bounds of that.
>
> All I'm saying is think...
Completely agreed, Kevan - too mean in some places (towards outright
inappropriate for public discussion).
In fairness, it would have been better to ignore the user completely
after Kris's (well-written) e-mail.
Tom
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