Author: Will Singleton
Date: 08:26:36 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 Hunky? :)
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