I'm not ready to accept such a straw-man burden just to offset the right's obsession with maximizing it. But then the right is not innocent in these things either.
One thing that characterizes those of us who support NPOV is that we are willing to tale other points of view into account, and not engage in venomous rhetoric to impose an historical guilt on today's individuals just because their beliefs appear to have a superficial similarity to those held by the leaders of certain notorious regimes.
Ec
Fred Bauder wrote:
The burden of minimizing the significance of 100 million deaths falls on the left.
From: Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 00:48:25 -0700 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Consumerium
Fred Bauder wrote:
Nope, What I mean by carrying the day is when a favorable spin is inserted and maintained, by means of reverts, by POV editors on the left.
Fred
Ahhh! You mean just like POV editors of the right.
Ec