[imp] Political correctness

[Brett Jones]

So then by calling the brown Africans "Black" they put them in the same 
class as all things evil or devilish?

Bad Europeans.

boiboi alavaren wrote:
> Blacklist, blacksheep, black magic... "those terms developed long before 
> European whites were aware of a black race. And they arose, not out of racism, 
> but religious beliefs that associated black, with the dark underworld, with hell and 
> the devil."
> 
>  
> Quoting Ramon Kagan <rkagan@yorku.ca>:
> 
> + Sorry about this one, I've been ordered by my superiors to ask.
> + 
> + You have the word "blacklist" in the program.  Some people in our
> + community find this offensive.  They are asking if this could be changed
> + to something else like "block".
> + 
> + Sorry,
> + 
> + Ramon Kagan
> + York University, Computing and Network Services
> + Unix Team -  Intermediate System Administrator
> + (416)736-2100 #20263
> + rkagan@yorku.ca
> + 
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Brett Jones
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