Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 12:44:46 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <4f7tmjplbte7cnuh2pqrh1fufs4iatv3fd@4ax.com> <67707879@news.ausics.net> <366b4ad1-4849-d7a9-cade-67d1eba035c3@example.net> <35a09fa5-08b1-8121-51c7-28d3aac1cd0f@example.net> <3002e7b9-095e-c292-1202-b151f7776587@example.net> <4cc6649f-8824-58f5-3244-46bdc60505dd@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1963203"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63776 On Sat, 4 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > On 1/4/25 1:08 AM, rbowman wrote: >> On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 01:43:35 +0100, D wrote: >> >>> As a counter to that, I've started to drop a few "negros" in >>> conversations here and there out in town, and I also started to wear my >>> MAGA hat on the streets of Stockholm. >> >> When I was growing up niggers preferred to be called Negroes. It's hard to >> keep track. Of course when I was growing up we also had polocks, wops, >> kikes, and and other designations. My mother was politically correct >> before her time and would accuse my father of sounding like Hitler. >> >> The punchline is she thought any male Negro over the age of five was going >> to rape her. My father had no problems with niggers. They were just people >> until proven differently. I learned about hypocrisy and pretty words >> early. >> >> I don't have a MAGA hat. In the summer I have a NRA hat that I wear >> hiking; that's almost as good. > > My father was a racist - northern racist. However > he WAS kinda odd about it. He'd sometimes rant about > 'niggers' but most any 'negro' he ever worked with > was "OK" - sometimes they'd be over for dinner ... > and this was "the south". Even saw him stand up to > the Jim Crow bubbs once or twice. My mother had > been raised with her fam/brothers often employing > and working closely with 'negros' and didn't freak > about it at all. > > In short, the 'racism' picture even in the southern > USA was not as simple and monolithic as the usual > rhetoric/media likes to portray. Reality would not > be as 'politically useful'. > I found, in my life, that the best way to integrate people is to work together towards a common goal. That leads to respect and very little racism, and "integration" happens automatically.