Aggressive language on python-list
Zero Piraeus
schesis at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 20:02:59 EDT 2012
:
On 17 October 2012 19:53, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto at gmail.com> wrote:
> To take it a little further, what if I said I got gypped. I think it
> goes to gypsy's. Was it racist?
"Racist" is a word with competing definitions, and intent is a factor
in some of them ... but yes, many people are offended by such use of
the word "gyp", just as they would be by similar use of "jew" as a
verb.
-[]z.
More information about the Python-list
mailing list