I have to admit I too was quite shocked and sickened by the comments today. Linux users are usually thought of as SMART geeky people. Usually geeks are not phased by color, race, other as we as individuals are knowledgeable and quite intelligent in one sense or the other. I will self disclose some info here. I grew up in NY till 1988 when I graduated HS. I went to college there for 2 semesters, then moved to TN. I went to UT Knoxville for a semester, and moved to Nashville. I lived there for the next 8.5 years. I "learned" how to be a racist. I moved here in 1998 and I don't do it anymore. It is a learned behavior that we must as a community stop teaching. Please in the future keep all derogatory comments to yourselves. Bad enough we have distro conflicts now and again. We are all here for a common reason, and I have only met a handful of you, but so far I am impressed and quite happy with what I have seen.
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Siri Amrit Kaur wrote: 
But to go around spitting
on people who don't happen to support your agenda makes me wonder if
you wear a towel on your head.

--Phil M.
            

Personally, I'm not looking for offensive comments, but I know when I'm being 
slapped in the face. As a Sikh who is sworn to respect and defend religious 
freedom for all people, I must say that I resent "towel-head" comments 
against people who wear turbans. 

"Towel-head" is definitely a derogatory term for "turban-wearer." If you had 
ever had someone scream it at you from a passing car while they throw their 
drinks at you, you would know that. It's something you never forget...

The hijackers on 9/11 did NOT wear turbans. They had cut hair and shaved just 
like most American men. My husband proudly wears a turban. A gentle, 
peace-loving, turban-wearing Sikh was murdered here in the valley after 9/11 
just because of ignorant hatred against turban-wearing people. I never 
expected to encounter that bigotry here in my PLUG email.

With every decision we make every day, our words and deeds can be healing or 
hurtful. Please choose wisely.

Siri Amrit Kaur

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