Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

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'.
>

I found, in my life, that the best way to integrate people is to work together towards a common goal. That leads to respect and very little racism, and "integration" happens automatically.