The following reply was made to PR misc/33495; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: fredb@immanent.net (Frederick Bruckman)
To: "Daniel Weiss" <dweiss@alcor.concordia.ca>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/33495: Offensive quote in netbsd fortune package
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 10:31:56 -0500 (CDT)

 In article <000301c679b8$329f1e70$5ac6cd84@iitsdweiss>,
 	"Daniel Weiss" <dweiss@alcor.concordia.ca> writes:
 > 
 > A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman.  Imagine if on top
 > of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.
 >                  -- Adolf Hitler
 >  
 >  A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing -- tender, sweet,  and
 > stupid.
 >                  -- Adolf Hitler
 > 
 > 
 > There's a good spot to draw the line. It is discriminatory to over half of
 > the world's population. Not to mention all the ethnicities Hitler tried to
 > wipe out. I'm asking that you think before selecting the quotations as your
 > actions affect others.
 
 Dan, you're missing something very important. Those quotes were
 *obviously* meant to be ironic.  In the U.S. in the recent past,
 sexism was acceptable like Naziism never was.  The quotes are
 an attempt to smear sexists by association (with Adolf Hitler).
 
 Try substituting "Adolf Hitler" with some hated daemon of your
 own, and see if it makes more sense.
 
 The real problem with censorship, is that censors are witless.
 
 I agree though, that it's not the duty of the computer science
 lab personnel to explain "irony" to incoming freshman, let alone
 professors and administrators, so putting those in the offensive
 category seems to be appropriate.
 
 
 Frederick