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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:31:34 +0000
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On 11/01/2025 12:04, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> On 09/01/2025 16:56, D wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 8 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 11:27:32 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You're racist for even talking about it!  :-D
>>>>>
>>>>> "Coloured folks?"
>>>>
>>>> Who came up with BIPOC? Or NAACP for that matter? By the time I was 
>>>> a kid
>>>> 'colored' was out and 'negro' was in. Now we're back to 'people of 
>>>> color'?
>>>> That means they're colored, right?
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is the truth! I remember when I was in school, the english 
>>> teacher liked negro, while the german teacher said that was racist 
>>> and preferred colored.
>>>
>>> I stuck with the negro. I've made my choice! ;)
>> Ive always felt colored to be more offensive than nigger, and negro 
>> probably the least offensiive term, but its all stupid. Ive heard 
>> nigger both used as a term of endearment and as a term to describe a 
>> stupid black person as well - by blacks.
>> In this country as in Africa, if you want to refer to anything, you 
>> probably use a far more detailed description. Like afro carribean, or 
>> Pakistani, or Indian, or Chinese, or arab, or Welsh or Scottish, or 
>> Irish...or Iranian...Because no way does one word cover everything 
>> that isn't 'just like you'
> 
> There is also the mysterious "nigga" I've not yet come to terms with it.
And Nigra.

-- 
I was brought up to believe that you should never give offence if you 
can avoid it; the new culture tells us you should always take offence if 
you can. There are now experts in the art of taking offence, indeed 
whole academic subjects, such as 'gender studies', devoted to it.

Sir Roger Scruton