Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:02:53 +0000 From: neal <kneel.pardoe@virgin.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] who wrote this Message-ID: <200711261802.53776.kneel.pardoe@virgin.net> In-Reply-To: <001301c82fe1$4e4263e0$6701a8c0@mobility> References: <001301c82fe1$4e4263e0$6701a8c0@mobility>
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On Monday 26 November 2007, eBoundHost: Artur wrote: > >Lets also remember that history is written by the > > victors, which means they LIE! > >neal. > > Wow neal, that's very nice of you. =A0 What is? Surely this is not the first time you have heard=20 this said about history. > are you saying that=20 > hitler didn't do any of these things? =A0 What I was saying was contained in the post, there were no=20 words missing, it was all there, complete. > I'm not even going=20 > to respond to you here, just going to re-post your words > to show that there are still people like you out there... Oh, you took this personally as if it was an insult directed=20 at you. This is one of the problems when viewing with=20 combative mind set. > And as far as your sage to the moon quote, don't think > too much of your own sagedom, there is always someone > younger and smarter. =A0 Despite the failure of the 'message', it was honestly sent=20 *to* you not *at* you as you seem to think.=20 how about "we do not see the world as it is but as we are". > You would be better off being a=20 > little less "sagy" and a bit nicer. Thanks, but you are not in a position to determine how I=20 might be better or worse off. > Now to the rest of you who are for some reason turning > this into a Censorship issue. =A0It's not. =A0I'm asking to > replace the text on the HTML front page with a completely > unnecessary reference to hitler. =A0We're not talking about > pruning the quotes database for controversial speakers. > =A0having hitlers name there does nothing positive for the > project and polarizes the viewing audience because it > offends the vast majority of people, 99% of whom are not > going to spend an evening writing to a mailing list to > have the issue fixed. They won't think about the deep > philosophical reasons why this should be there in > principle. =A0They are going to read the page and think to > themselves that the freebsd community are a bunch of > jerks. No, that is what it says to *you*. You are not everyone=20 else. > There are far better ways to express the thought than by > simply saying "hitler quotes". =A0For instance it can be > replaced with "controversial persons" or something > similar. =A0 So it is about censorship. You want the name 'Hitler' erased=20 from existence. > He was not the only such person in history, so=20 > we should not be focusing only on him. > Best Regards, > > Artur
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