On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 09:50 PM, Chip Morton wrote:
So I think we can pretty much kill the pseudo-ignorant "Oh it wasn't
poking fun at anybody specifically" attitude.
Think of all the poor Swedish who are stereotyped by The Muppets
Swedish Chef! And Google helps maintain this prejudice with their
ethnically insensitive Swedish Chef translation
(http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/). Why the whole world will think
that every Swede is a clumsy guy who beats his dough with a rolling pin
and says "Bork, bork, bork" a lot.
In other words, the encheferizer owes it's existence to a desire of
Norwegian middle-class pricks to make fun of Swedish working-class kids.
Pretty soon as a result of this oppressive stereotype, people will
start taking casual mailing lists far more seriously than they ought
to. These mailing list posters will link Scandinavian racial strife,
fascism, atomic weapons, and the worldwide proliferation of Chicken
McNuggets to the encheferizer. Oh the horrors caused by one simple
program.
I'd best go back to my strange world where the people who speak jive
are mainly white and the word pragmatism means something. Bork, bork,
bork!
--
William Carrel
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