On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:41:22PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Of course, hacker slang can be sexist as well, even racist if you look
at the term " Mongolian Hordes technique" above.
If only you had had those real Mongolian hordes rushing towards you at the
appropriate time in history, you would understand...
There's a difference between being sensitive to racism and dismissing
history.
I wonder why we don't refer to the european hordes rushing into countless
continents, slaughtering and raping the local peoples for the last few
hundred years? There is a difference between dismissing history and
selective memory.
Best,
Chris.
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