On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Xcott Craver wrote:
On the other hand, only a moron would write source code for a commercial product without the assumption that other people will be reading it, and in fact will *have* to read it to get paid. Any arguments that the coders didn't intend/expect that the messages would one day be read by a black person is pretty weak.
Oh, I don't know. After all, we all know that blacks are so descriminated against. That's why we "need" such things as quotas, affirmative action, "dumbing down" of test scores, special versions of standardized tests for blacks, ebonics, and other such great ideas. Therefore, analyzing the government party line, it is perfectly reasonable to have assumed that blacks would always be so descriminated against as to never get hired for such a position. Right.