should "self" be changed?

Todd toddrjen at gmail.com
Wed May 27 09:00:04 EDT 2015


On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:40 PM, zipher <dreamingforward at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

If your goal is to get people to stop calling you a troll, you are going
about it the wrong way.  If it isn't, why are you even here?  Please
remember the first rule of holes: if you find yourself in a hole, stop
digging.
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