How to (not) fix a security flaw

Posted Apr 9, 2019 19:29 UTC (Tue) by Yenya (subscriber, #52846)
In reply to: How to (not) fix a security flaw by tao
Parent article: How to (not) fix a security flaw

Sorry, I don't buy into this kind of newspeak. Either races do not exist, and so does racism, or they do, and racism has to be about races and nothing else.

That said, rmayr above is right, this is not a technical discussion, so I will stop here.

On the other hand, sml, I do not consider myself being a troll - the above statements are not intendent to provoke a flame war or anything, these are my genunie opinions. I am sorry if they do not match your narrow view of the universe.

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How to (not) fix a security flaw

Posted Apr 11, 2019 22:09 UTC (Thu) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link]

There's no necessary link between whether races exist and whether racism exists.
Gods don't exist, yet a large part of Earth's population are theists. Or to take a rather less controversial statement; the Earth is an oblate spheroid, yet there are flat Earthers. Races don't exist, yet there are racists (and, granted, people who believe in races but aren't racists; being a racist tends to strongly imply believing in races, but believing in races doesn't imply being a racist).

I don't see how your disagreement with the common use of the word racist makes my view of the universe narrow.