should "self" be changed?

zipher dreamingforward at gmail.com
Wed May 27 08:40:51 EDT 2015


On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 6:30:16 AM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:
> 
> > On Wednesday 27 May 2015 14:39, Ben Finney wrote:
> >
> > > That kind of homophobic slur is inappropriate from anyone in this
> > > community. Kindly cut it out altogether.
> >
> > I look forward to the day when people would read the earlier insult
> > and be perplexed as to why it is a slur at all. In the same way as
> > "your mother wears army boots" has become a joke slur, not taken
> > seriously.
> 
> Yes, let's all work toward an end to the use of gender, sexuality,
> ethnicity, and other inborn traits as the punchline of insults or jokes.

Oh God, you people are being idiots.  It's poop. And shall we all so look forward to the day, when people who eat poop are also welcome into the circle of humanity? 

Everyday, you let atrocity happen, and you're fighting for oppressed feltchers?

If so, you dumbasses don't deserve much of a future.

Mark



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