what ever happened to linux?(Rep. Cleaver/immigration rants, etc.)

[Monty J. Harder]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Craig Aldinger <gonzogone at gmail.com> wrote:

> I may be just a reader of the forum for the vast majority of the posts
> arriving at my electronic doorstep but, I feel rather mystified..... I
> thought this is the Kansas City LINUX Users Group.
> While I can be massively entertained by the
> sociological/political/religious meanderings of some folks who post here, my
> primary interest is in learning as much as I can about, you guessed it,
> LINUX.
>

It happens occasionally that we discuss things other than Linux, the *BSDs,
other Unices, or even the DOS/Windows lineage. Given the wide variety of
political and religious leanings of this group, when we do that, it's almost
certain to result in a flamefest.

Especially when people resort to a particular form of ad hominem that seems
to be really popular lately:
  X:  I don't like ____.
  Y:  ____ is (all/disproportionally) non-white, therefore you're a racist.
[The unstated conclusion is that anything a racist likes/agrees with is
automatically bad.]


It's getting on my last nerve.  In fact, in the spirit of Godwin, I'm going
to propound my very own Internet Law.  Here's my working version:  "Calling
someone a 'racist', rather than addressing the truth or falsity of their
position, is an implict confession that one is unable to do the latter."
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