Re:Gnome is too racist for the good of Linux (Score 1)

If indeed your allegations are true, we have a problem on our hands. It's unfortunate that something like this would come to pass in the open-source movement, it is not surprising.

The only possible surprise is that the racism is directed against Asian-Americans instead of African-Americans. And since African-Americans bear the brunt of discrimination in this country, especially in the high-tech industry, it's likely that where there is smoke, there is fire. That is, where there is discrimination against Asian-Americans, there is almost certainly discrimination against African-Americans, perhaps at the source code level.

I do not have time, myself, to read through the source code and make sure the comments (not to mention the source itself) is free of racist content. But I urge any right-thinking person to do so, so we can root out this problem at its source.

If there is only discrimination against Asian-Americans, we don't have much of a problem (though the situation is still not good), since Asian-Americans have a strong power base in the United States. But if anti-African-American content is discovered, we should take some kind of action.

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