svn commit: r246362 - head/games/fortune/datfiles

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Nikolai Lifanov <lifanov at mail.lifanov.com> writes:
> Remove political propaganda -- Why?

Because FreeBSD does not engage in politics.

> This is the "offensive" file.

Yes, and it is meant for dirty jokes and the like.  These are not dirty
jokes.  Some of these quotes are harmless, but others verge on hate
speech.

We already had this discussion when they were added way back when, and
the consensus was that we *shouldn't* have them.  However, the person
who added them was extremely vocal about them (and about what he
perceived as political censorship etc.), so as a compromise, we moved
them to -o.  That person is no longer with the project, so there is no
longer a need for such compromise.

Besides, what I removed were not isolated quotes, but a complete copy of
a copyrighted work, and therefore legally questionable.

> It's supposed to have potentially offensive political, sexist,
> religious, racist, and miscellaneously off content.

If there is racist content in that file, it should be removed.  The only
people who think racist jokes are OK ("geez, they're just jokes, lighten
up") are those who have never been at the receiving end of them and are
incapable of empathizing with those who have.  There is a word for
people like that: they're called "racists".

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no