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The 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
by nknighthb 13y ago
The 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.
- nknighthb 13y agoThe trope is universal and deeply embedded in American society. It is not surprising that someone apparently from the UK would not realize this. It is surprising that a non-American is so eager to force their own cultural context onto an American issue. Isn't that a very American thing to do?
- mikestew 13y ago> The trope is universal and deeply embedded in American society. No, it's not. Quit trying to pass yourself off as the ambassador of American culture. The majority of my 50 years on this earth have been spent living in the Midwest or U. S. South, neither of which are exactly hotbeds of racial tolerance and likely the origin of any racial slur you'll hear. And yet when I saw the title it never occurred to me to think of race at all. That is, until your comment showed up and I said to myself, "what the hell is he talking about?" Sure, there are some racial slurs that involve the word "monkey". But they're not even close to what you're talking about, and if one were to use them one would come off sounding about 76 years old.
- 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?)