29th July 2011, 11:09 PM
I've had some heated discussions with an extremely overt racist in the past. That fellow will be delighted to find out that it's in fact every "race" BUT the Africans which is "impure", as though that has any genetic meaning.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)