[PD] [OT] Re: about sexism

[Chris McCormick]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:41:22PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 
> >Of course, hacker slang can be sexist as well, even racist if you look 
> >at the term " Mongolian Hordes technique" above.
> 
> If only you had had those real Mongolian hordes rushing towards you at the 
> appropriate time in history, you would understand...
> 
> There's a difference between being sensitive to racism and dismissing 
> history.

I wonder why we don't refer to the european hordes rushing into countless
continents, slaughtering and raping the local peoples for the last few
hundred years? There is a difference between dismissing history and
selective memory.

Best,

Chris.

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