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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 13:03:40 -0500
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rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 08:59:22 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> Nah, we're not thinking in terms of race with that accusation, we're
>> thinking in terms of *bigotry* as expressed by denigration of a whole
>> group of people based on race.
>
> But race doesn't exist. Or does it? The liberals are fine with giving a 
> group of people special privileges based on race. 

Race isn't a nature concept, its obviously a sociological and political
construct, and fluid to some extent.

Also, you cannot really speak for "liberals". That's also, in my opinion,
a fluid sociological and political construct, same as "conservative". A bit too
fuzzy for well-reasoned arguments. The same individual can exhibit traits of
both.

-- 
	There was once a programmer who worked upon microprocessors.  "Look at
how well off I am here," he said to a mainframe programmer who came to visit,
"I have my own operating system and file storage device.  I do not have to
share my resources with anyone.  The software is self-consistent and
easy-to-use.  Why do you not quit your present job and join me here?"
	The mainframe programmer then began to describe his system to his
friend, saying: "The mainframe sits like an ancient sage meditating in the
midst of the data center.  Its disk drives lie end-to-end like a great ocean
of machinery.  The software is a multi-faceted as a diamond and as convoluted
as a primeval jungle.  The programs, each unique, move through the system
like a swift-flowing river.  That is why I am happy where I am."
	The microcomputer programmer, upon hearing this, fell silent.  But the
two programmers remained friends until the end of their days.
		-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"