Loaded terms in free software

> The hypocrisy isn't that. The hypocrisy is not acknowledging the violent colonization that resulted in the spread of the language in the first place

WHAT violent colonisation? For the record, America is SLAVishly following the "UK Imperial Howto" (yes I used that word), and we didn't invent it, we merely copied the Romans. Oh - and it's widely recognised that as Imperial Expansions go, the British one was remarkably NON-violent.

Also, for the record, me personally part of my family fled Germany, another part were probably victims to The Clearances, etc etc. For heavens sake, it's all history! I have a Saxon name, Norman persecution is STILL visible if you know how to look ...

All *I* said was "why can't the Americans have some national pride", and everybody starts dragging British Imperialism into it. For **** sake stop acting like a teenager and grow up! America claims to be a Free Country and a Champion of Democracy - as the rest of the world see them they are a Police State (as in the Police ignore the law because they EXPECT to get away with it), and they most definitely are not a modern democracy seeing as large slabs of the citizenry are routinely denied the opportunity to vote!

Take PRIDE in being a Free Country - demand that the Police are held accountable for their crimes!
Take PRIDE in being a modern democracy - demand that the right to vote includes the right to be given the OPPORTUNITY to vote!

And stop exporting your propaganda about how nice you are when you quite blatantly aren't! LIVE UP TO YOUR OWN CONSTITUTION!

I don't think I ought to drag IP (mis)behaviour into this ... but America are widely seen as the bully saying "do as I say, not as I do". Fix that, and respect for America will grow. But until America gains some self-respect of their own, I doubt they'll be able to fix it!

Cheers,
Wol