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Re: Renaming the Debian Project

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On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 02:03:40PM -0800, benjamin barber wrote:
> It's unfortunate that Debian is named after Debra and Ian, because having
> the project named after a white supremacist, who used his ex-wifes name as
> an trophy. Being that the current year is almost 2016 and is 20 years after
> Debian started, we should look to the future and not the past. We shouldn't
> tolerate the project being named after a person who uses the N word, or
> marginalizes women who've been sexually assaulted. Instead I think we ought
> to rename the project "Euphemia", which means "good speech" and represents
> our code of conduct, as well as being the name of Euphemia Lofton Haynes
> the first African American woman who earned a math PHD.

The neo-tribalist, pseudo-leftist, anti-materialist form of ideology that 
took shape during the famed '80s Culture Wars--"identity politics"--seems to 
have had a slight resurgence in the past few years. So much for those who 
take it up.

"First as tragedy, then as farce."

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Renaming the Debian Project benjamin barber <starworks5@gmail.com> - 2015-12-30 23:10 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-12-30 23:20 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> - 2015-12-30 23:20 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk> - 2015-12-30 23:50 +0100
    Re: Renaming the Debian Project Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-12-31 00:10 +0100
    Re: Renaming the Debian Project Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2015-12-31 00:30 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project "Fuller, Lee" <lee.fuller@leesys.co.uk> - 2015-12-31 00:00 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project larocca@larocca.io - 2015-12-31 01:10 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2015-12-31 02:10 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> - 2015-12-31 05:00 +0100
    Re: Renaming the Debian Project Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-12-31 05:20 +0100
    Re: Renaming the Debian Project Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> - 2015-12-31 08:50 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Jeff Garra <jgarra@aglilly.com> - 2015-12-31 05:10 +0100
    RE: Renaming the Debian Project Manuel <manchax@gmail.com> - 2015-12-31 05:40 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project keito <audioactivist@gmail.com> - 2015-12-31 13:40 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project Ehud Gavron <gavron@wetwork.net> - 2016-01-01 07:30 +0100
  Re: Renaming the Debian Project gaffa <gaffa@confuseacat.dk> - 2016-01-02 19:40 +0100

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