On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:49:16PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 09.05.2008 13:13, Richard M Stallman wrote:
Come on Richard, enough is enough. No one is talking about racism here.No? It definitely looks that way. Here is what Reinauer wrote:
>> that very graphics chip vendor, in a half-reflected way, similar to those >> my ancestor countrymen suggested not to buy from certain groups of >> people.As far as I can tell, that is a thinly veiled reference to racism, and it asserts that boycotting a company is equivalent to racism.
You're missing a point here because you don't know German history well enough (Stefan and I are from Germany). Germany saw campaigns where people suggested not to buy from groupsof peopley with whom they disagreed politically. NO racism involved AT ALL. Granted, that's one of the lesser known aspects of German history.
Well, I admit that the pictures that came to my mind reading Stephan's mail can be seen by typing "kauft nicht bei Juden" in google images. And I agree with rms that this comparison is worse than absurd. However, I suggest to close this topic now. It's getting destructive.
Regards,
Andi