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It's not mortal terror, it's declining to enable someone who uses racially-charged language to attack their fellow human beings while configuring their server i
by nknighthb 13y ago
It's not mortal terror, it's declining to enable someone who uses racially-charged language to attack their fellow human beings while configuring their server in a way that anyone competent to evaluate OpenSSL's merits in the first place would know was no better than not having SSL at all, and in fact much worse, since it trains people to ignore certificate warnings.
- koenigdavidmj 13y agoYou're the only one bringing race into this. All that is meant is that the author views OpenSSL as approximately what you would get if you flung poo around for a while.
- nknighthb 13y agoThe author brought race into it by comparing human beings to monkeys, a common racist trope. If your only defense for someone calling people sub-humans is "but it might not be racist!", you need to think hard about what you're defending.
- aaronem 13y agoIf your only justification for calling someone a racist is "but sometimes racists use that word!", you need to spend less time on Tumblr.
- nknighthb 13y agoI really have no idea what this crap about Tumblr is. I don't use it, and I don't really know anyone who does. When I click a link to it, it's almost always a cute animal picture or a piece of art that has no relation to any controversial subject. If there's something more to Tumblr, I wouldn't know, and there is no reason to assume I would. People raised not to call others monkeys are not somehow the result of the latest social media fad.
- fyrabanks 13y agoIt's because you sound like the "check your privilege" crew that tends to congregate on Tumblr. (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/check-your-privilege http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/check-your-privilege) By the way, the key line from the article you didn't read (yet presume to understand its author's intent): "I have come to the conclusion that OpenSSL is equivalent to monkeys throwing feces at the wall."
- nknighthb 13y agoI did read it, after it was helpfully posted elsewhere. I wish I hadn't. Not surprisingly, it wasn't worth my time.
- fyrabanks 13y ago"Not surprisingly, it wasn't worth my time," says the guy conducting multiple conversations in the comments section of an article on the internet that he didn't agree with.
- jodrellblank 13y agoIf there's something more to Tumblr, I wouldn't know, and there is no reason to assume I would. "This guy says something I associate with racism so he's racist. I say something you associate with Tumblr and there's NO REASON TO ASSUME I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT TUMBLR". nknighthb, meet double standards. Double standards, nknighthb.
- fyrabanks 13y agoApril 8th, the day we learned that nknighthb doesn't know he's a racist.
- jodrellblank 13y agoYou are wrong, racists are wrong, therefore you are a racist. QED. (The classic racist comparison is "black people are monkeys". This comparison is "the code is awful, as if it were written by non-sentient animals bashing on keyboards". This comparison has nothing to do with race, it's not suggesting any particular race wrote OpenSSL or that any particular race cannot write good code or good cryptography systems. It is not making any distinction by race at all. If they described it as "OpenSSL was written by crashing ink tankers into alphabeti-spaghetti lorries" would that be racially comparing people with vehicles?)
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoWoah - have you never heard the phrase "pay peanuts, get monkeys"? Have you not heard of webmonkey.com which uses the very slightly derogatory term in a self-deprecating way? It's a little sinister to bring race into this at all - I don't think anyone else went remotely near that connotation until you brought it up.
- nknighthb 13y ago> have you never heard the phrase "pay peanuts, get monkeys"? No. I'm familiar with the idiom of "peanuts" meaning little money, monkeys have never been mentioned. In the modern American cultural context, monkeys are associated with bananas. Peanuts are associated with elephants. > Have you not heard of webmonkey.com which uses the very slightly derogatory term in a self-deprecating way? I don't care what people call themselves, nor do I care what members of a community call one another in jest. I care what people call others as an insult.
- penrod 13y ago> In the modern American cultural context, monkeys are associated with bananas. Actually, code monkeys are associated with Fritos.
- aaronem 13y agoAnd Tab, and Mountain Dew.
- benregenspan 13y agoI'm tired of your elephantsplaining.