Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 1/4/25 1:08 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 01:43:35 +0100, D wrote:
 

As a counter to that, I've started to drop a few "negros" in
conversations here and there out in town, and I also started to wear my
MAGA hat on the streets of Stockholm.

 When I was growing up niggers preferred to be called Negroes. It's hard to
keep track. Of course when I was growing up we also had polocks, wops,
kikes, and and other designations. My mother was politically correct
before her time and would accuse my father of sounding like Hitler.
 The punchline is she thought any male Negro over the age of five was going
to rape her. My father had no problems with niggers. They were just people
until proven differently. I learned about hypocrisy and pretty words
early.
 I don't have a MAGA hat. In the summer I have a NRA hat that I wear
hiking; that's almost as good.

   My father was a racist - northern racist. However
   he WAS kinda odd about it. He'd sometimes rant about
   'niggers' but most any 'negro' he ever worked with
   was "OK" - sometimes they'd be over for dinner ...
   and this was "the south". Even saw him stand up to
   the Jim Crow bubbs once or twice. My mother had
   been raised with her fam/brothers often employing
   and working closely with 'negros' and didn't freak
   about it at all.
   In short, the 'racism' picture even in the southern
   USA was not as simple and monolithic as the usual
   rhetoric/media likes to portray. Reality would not
   be as 'politically useful'.