Comment 4 for bug 1893706

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

I agree that this is racist and should be either removed or amended. Specifically, it is racist for referring to "Asian flu", which apparently this is not the only instance of in this package. If anyone is suggesting that it is racist for referencing Indians or Sikhs (who are largely but not exclusively Indian), I would disagree; mere reference to ethnicity or religion, or using the words in a tongue twister based on their phonological characterisics, does not make something racist or bigoted.

But as far as moving this to fortunes-off, see LP: #1996682 where I have just removed that package wholesale as it in an irredeemable mess inconsistent with Ubuntu values and should not be distributed at all.

So this bug is ripe for someone to patch out the references to "Asian flu".