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Because the Mongolians did it so much better as to be noteworthy? And dont forget the Vikings, we were pretty legendary. Then the damn Christians tamed us.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>But im also an American citizen (my mother is Scandinavian), so you have my explicit permission to speak of the current American Hordes, should you need to specify any group of people with a "horde"/"Invasion"/"rape"/"torture" analogy, or if you are feeling a bit reminiscent, to use viking rather than mongolian, you will at least offend n-1 people on the PD list.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks,<br><div><br><div><div>On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:40 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:41:22PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Of course, hacker slang can be sexist as well, even racist if you look<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">at the term " Mongolian Hordes technique" above.</div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If only you had had those real Mongolian hordes rushing towards you at the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">appropriate time in history, you would understand...</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">There's a difference between being sensitive to racism and dismissing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">history.</div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I wonder why we don't refer to the european hordes rushing into countless</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">continents, slaughtering and raping the local peoples for the last few</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">hundred years? There is a difference between dismissing history and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">selective memory.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Best,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://mccormick.cx">http://mccormick.cx</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:PD-list@iem.at">PD-list@iem.at</a> mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#B51C1C" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;; color: rgb(181, 28, 28); "><b style="color: rgb(181, 28, 28); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(181, 28, 28); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; ">v a d e //</span></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 12px; ; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7F7F7F"><br style="color: rgb(127, 127, 127); font-size: 10px; "></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7F7F7F" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b style="color: rgb(127, 127, 127); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(127, 127, 127); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; ">www.vade.info</span></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7F7F7F" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;; color: rgb(127, 127, 127); "><b style="color: rgb(127, 127, 127); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(127, 127, 127); font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; ">abstrakt.vade.info</span></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>