Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 09:16:53 02/04/05
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On February 04, 2005 at 02:56:26, Mike Byrne wrote: >The moderators recently received a post from a young man who made a very >convincing argument that we should not allowed CCC members to call another CCC >member "swami". > >The argument is that it was degrading and insulting to those members who come >from India. The question was raised if would we allow other ethnic groups to >be simliarly harassed. > >For example, without going into all the specific examples, would we allow any >ethnic group to be harras in a similiar fashion? The answer is no. Mitigating >this somewhat, we did have a member named "swami" who became infamous for trying >to obtain engines illegally. I believe most of the references were made to >those who posted like "swami" and not becauae a member was from India. >Nonetheless, new members do not understand the "swami" history and we should >stop it. Our members from India find this "swami" name calling degrading. >Would we allow people to call our members , kraut, nazi, kite, hunky,dago,polak >etc. The answer is no and we should not longer allow "swami" either. > >So I'm asking everyone to simply stop calling any member "swami" - although I >realize the tempation is there, it is simply not the right way for us to treat >our fellow CCC Indian members. > >Thanks for your understanding and cooperation. > >Best, > >Michael Byrne Since this post is clearly aimed at me, I would like to make something very clear: I am not using the term as some strage sort of racial slur, but as an abbreviation of "Swaminathan", as I believe that Swaminathan Natarajan, Vikrant Malvankar, Madhavan, and Adam Wilks are all aliases of the same idiot. Not only do they all share the same complete lack of interesting information and poor use of the English language, but I have seen "conversations" by this moron where he signs "Vikrant" to his Madhavan account and vice versa. Perhaps I will be proven wrong, but I'd be very curious to see IP and traceroute logs for those accounts. anthony
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