Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Benjamin Belau <benbelau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Clayton,
>
> On Tuesday 02 May 2006 00:20, Clayton wrote:
>
> > > You want to know what racism is? It's the belief that there is such
> > > a thing as race.
> >
> > Tell that to the people making the laws in the country I live in - no
> > I'm not going to say what country it is - suffice to say that the
> > problems in the country seen to be always blamed on a specific race
> > or ethnicity that is a very visible minority here.  They are going so
> > far as to make laws that are specifically targetted at certain enthic
> > groups.
>
>
> And I would be the first to acknowledge that the social phenomena 
> surrounding so-called "race" are very real, very powerful and often 
> very pernicious.
>
> I sometimes think that the reason your overt, KKK- or Nazi-style racist 
> is so angry is the cognitive dissonance of knowing that what they 
> expound is so very false.
>
> And I would never suggest that people should discard their heritage and 
> customs. Then again, I think most societies have some negative customs, 
> a common one being a despicable attitude towards women. People often 
> point to custom as an excuse for nasty practices. Slavery was the 
> custom in parts of the Americas for a few hundred years. Custom does 
> not excuse immoral practices.
>
>
> This could go on, and it shouldn't, of course. Not here.
>
> I'm sorry to have done this, but race is a "hot button" with me, too, in 
> my own way.
>
>
>
> > ...
> >
> > Now... if only we could convince everyone to use SUSE :-)  Ha ha
>
>
>
> Up with SuSE!!
>
>
> Randall Schulz

Gee, I sure had abit more fun then usual when I was reading through tech 
mails and came across this thread, but I seriously doubt this belongs here - 
maybe novel can setup a list rantingrandom@xxxxxxxx ;)

Greets,
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Benjamin Belau
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