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Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 13:51 UTC (Thu) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094)
In reply to: Ubuntu changing its look by cmsj
Parent article: Ubuntu changing its look

I reported the comment with the racial slur to lwn@lwn.net LATE last night.


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Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 14:00 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

I suspect the word was probably not intended to be used as a racial slur (I had to look it up).

Ubuntu changing its look

Posted Mar 4, 2010 14:31 UTC (Thu) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

If it were meant as a racial slur, I would think it would have made more sense. As it is, it looks much more like a typo. This incident reminds me of an old George Carlin bit where he talks about the "7 dirty words you can't say on TV" - none of those, however, were racial slurs.

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