On 8/24/06, Sarah slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
The image cutline shouldn't say anything beyond the basic description of where and when taken.
No one is fretting about the cutlines on any of the other images on that page, which also don't say who's claiming they are or aren't examples of anti-Semitism. Dozens of other images are used on Wikipedia in the same way.
This image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ColoredDrinking.jpg used in [[Racism]] doesn't have a cutline saying "this is regarded as an example of racism by X." This image, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Races_and_skulls.png used as an example of scientific racism, doesn't say "according to X." This image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1900sc_Postcard-Watermelon_04.jpg is called a "racist postcard"; we don't say "according to X." This image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:OctopusNAS1.jpg is labeled anti-Semitic without saying who says so. Must this image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LeedsUniversityNAS.jpg now have a cutline saying "anti-Semitic according to the Community Security Trust"? Does this image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Yankee_go_home_Liverpool.jpg used to illustrate anti-Americanism, have to say it's anti-American only according to X? This http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bomb_iran_thong.jpg is used to illustrate anti-Iranianism without attribution. This http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tokio_Kid_Say.gif is used to show anti-Japanese sentiment, with no attribution, as is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Poster_Japan_flag_stabbed.jpg
Some others, all making a stated or implied claim, with no attribution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hands_of_victory.JPG alleged to show anti-Persianism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Golliwogg2.jpg for Afrophobia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_023.jpg Francophobia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Antiruss.jpg Russophobia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Merridien_Web.png ditto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:YellowTerror.jpg Sinophobia
And there are many more. So the question is, of all these images allegedly depicting prejudices of various kinds, why is this one image being singled out for different treatment?
Sarah