Spamming PyPI with stupid packages
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sun Jan 1 19:52:27 EST 2012
Alexander Kapps <alex.kapps at web.de> writes:
> Absolutely not funny. I hope that someday people will understand that
> sexism is just another form of racism.
That's not right. Racism and sexism are not forms of each other.
Instead, racism and sexism are both forms of bigotry.
And yes, I agree that the packages at issue are unfunny and the intent
is bigoted.
> I was about to write a really harsh reply, but cooled down before I got a
> chance to hit the Send button.
You would do better to send it to the author, rather than here.
> Felinx Lee: Do apologize and rename your package/module or I'm going
> to make a racist comment against Chinese people.
Please don't. We must be better than the bigots whose behaiour you
rightly deplore.
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