Re:Bug 647959 – Add Honest Achmed's root certificate (2011)
by slavik81 on Monday January 04, 2016 @08:27PM
(#10840303)
Why does Achmed have to represent his entire race while Eddie can just represent himself? It seems like the default is 'white' == 'safe', which really doesn't help minorities.
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Re:Bug 647959 – Add Honest Achmed's root certificate (2011)
by jheriko on Monday January 04, 2016 @10:38PM
(#10840962)
because only an english speaker partaking in casual racism would, imo, label a stereotypical arab as 'achmed'. from what i've seen its an exceptionally rare spelling of the name born of parody of the difficulties english speakers have with the 'h' (which is not the 'phlegm' sound btw)
if we call him tommy he is english, hans and he is german, pierre and he is french... achmed is the arab, with a badly spelled name out of ignorance to boot.