Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: How quickly a bug gets fixed... Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 13:42:46 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <06IcP.24115$DPp5.21507@fx01.iad> <4dCdP.414403$bYV2.127384@fx17.iad> <_6ZdP.418575$bYV2.357477@fx17.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 14:42:47 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9a8df08ba0ed6ca0e052f862be1b3ee7"; logging-data="1115220"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+8wsD3TTDZ3QJemt6GOMBS" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7Anqa14PkG5bvMfjPPntJUTYrmM= Bytes: 3627 On 2025-01-04, Andrzej Matuch wrote: > On 2025-01-04 02:37, RonB wrote: >> On 2025-01-03, Andrzej Matuch wrote: >>> On 2025-01-03 15:41, rbowman wrote: >>>> On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 08:37:19 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote: >>>> >>>>> They didn't resist the vaccine, they >>>>> didn't resist the mask, they didn't resist the pronoun garbage; why >>>>> would they resist the Mark? >>>> >>>> I skipped the vaccine and had my useless, Chinese made, N0 muzzle to get >>>> me into CostCo, but how do you 'resist' the pronoun garbage? >>> >>> By refusing to address people who believe they are the opposite gender >>> by the pronouns associated with that gender. Also, by refusing to use >>> made-up pronouns like ze and zir. >>> >>>> What amuses me is the 'White non-Hispanic' category. Are they trying to >>>> imply Hispanics aren't white? >>> >>> Since Hispanics include people who have no European characteristics >>> whatsoever, I can imagine why they are not considered White. >> >> I consider white Latinos white. "Hispanic" is a language group, not a racial >> group. > > Until they forced me to notice that they looked different in my 30s or > so, I never cared what ethnicity someone was. They were either friends > or they weren't. However, Obama and the media of the time were very good > at separating us by sex and religion and I can no longer be as blind as > I used to be. I guess that was the HOPE he kept referring to. When I was a kid in school they taught us about the "melting pot" and how there are no differences in the races. (Not true, but I got the point. People are people.) Now it's "racist" not to "recognize" the differences in race. And the "melting pot" mixing of cultures has become "appropriation." But all this only seems to work only in one direction. There's no issues with other races "appropriating" stuff from the white culture. I think it's all stupid. People are people — we're basically all mutts. As my grandmother used to say, "There's good and there's bad in all of us." By "us" she meant the various races. -- “Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien