Re: [SLUG] Re: Insulting racial terms
Alan L Tyree <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:16:07 +1100 Daniel Pittman <[email protected]> wrote: <SNIP> > > 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. > <SNIP> Daniel, Take it easy. Sonia claimed that the term was used derisively. I don't know that the claim is correct. Her web site reference only shows that it is a Spanish word. I certainly have never heard before that it was a term of racial derision. The writer of the Lone Ranger, Fran Striker, claimed that he named Tonto after the Tonto National Monument. His son claimed that Striker always tried to use the relationship between the two men to promote tolerance. Words change. Even if Sonia is right, the fact that some fool in the 1800s used a term derisively does not mean that everyone thereafter who uses it is a racist. I doubt that the Spanish speakers of the world would accept that. Alan > Daniel > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html