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DATE | 2019-10-29 |
FROM | Jean Louis
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SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS]
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* Ruben Safir [2019-10-29 21:07]:
> On 10/29/19 4:50 AM, Jean Louis wrote:
> > I believe there can be jokes that represent hate speech, I did not
> > think about it. Maybe I had to say Those jokes are not hate speech
> > as I referred to those jokes which are the issue according to
> > Ludovic Courtès, those he said to be the issue like Federal
> > censorship regulation -- it is not even really abort() joke, it is joke
> > about Federal censorship regulation.
> >
> > 25.7.4 Aborting a Program
> >
> > Future Change Warning: Proposed Federal censorship regulations may
> > prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of
> > calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an
> > acceptable way of terminating a program.
>
>
> Now that is a joke which tries to make a point. The point is not
> targeting anyone, and __I would not have it in documentation__
> because I am anti-abortion, and it is unprofessional, in my opinion.
> But people are human and are allowed to have there opinions, and
> this is an opinion that is wildly accepted, that is that the US
> federal government's attempt to interference in the women's choice
> to have an abortion is immoral. This joke and harms and targets
> noone. It is also 100% NOT OFFENSIVE to anyone.
GNU is Not Unix.
And Unix always had jokes. It is part of programmer's culture.
The term "GNU" is a joke in itself.
How about
$ man baby
https://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~steinl/vitser/baby.html
or
$ man celibacy
https://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~steinl/vitser/celibacy.html
> If this is on his private webpage, it is his business BTW. If this
> is in gnu documentation, IMO, he should have it removed... and SO
> WHAT. It is not nearly as offensive as the anti-Israeli and
> anti-Semitic being spewed, and not as a joke, from all kinds of Free
> Software people.
Removing jokes from GNU does not make fun any more.
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