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Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages

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Alexander Kapps <alex.kapps@web.de> writes:

> Absolutely not funny. I hope that someday people will understand that
> sexism is just another form of racism.

That's not right. Racism and sexism are not forms of each other.

Instead, racism and sexism are both forms of bigotry.

And yes, I agree that the packages at issue are unfunny and the intent
is bigoted.

> I was about to write a really harsh reply, but cooled down before I got a
> chance to hit the Send button.

You would do better to send it to the author, rather than here.

> Felinx Lee: Do apologize and rename your package/module or I'm going
> to make a racist comment against Chinese people.

Please don't. We must be better than the bigots whose behaiour you
rightly deplore.

-- 
 \     “God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to |
  `\     explain those things that you do not understand.” —Richard P. |
_o__)                                                    Feynman, 1988 |
Ben Finney

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Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Alexander Kapps <alex.kapps@web.de> - 2012-01-02 00:24 +0100
  Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-01-02 11:52 +1100
    Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-01-02 12:43 +1100
  Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-02 07:08 +0000
    Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 02:52 -0500
      Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages David Monaghan <monaghand.david@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 13:00 +0000
  Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-05 21:58 -0800

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