On 4/10/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
aaaaand, one-moron-one-vote is, if not dead, certainly marked for disposal:
On Apr 10, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
There is no reason to resort to namecalling ("morons").
on 4/10/07 10:05 PM, Phil Sandifer at Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
There's a good reason.
People who are hell-bent on clogging the project with terrible and destructive ideas in a stubborn, heavy-handed way that is anathema to our basic principles should be driven off.
Driven off? Sound pretty heavy handed to me.
We have policy controls to help in this task, but nothing does the job quite like a culture that is actively and openly hostile to their ways.
On 4/11/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
But a culture that needs to resort to name calling to achieve its goals couldn't have much else to recommend it.
on 4/11/07 12:09 AM, Andrew Lih at andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
On the other hand, let's not get carried away.
David was not using "moron" against an individual or even a constituency. It was simply a flippant commentary about the tyranny of the masses.
It was not a personal attack, and should not trigger the same outrage.
To be perfectly clear, I understood David's use of it; I was referring to Phil's reference to it. I felt he was implying that it was OK to use such terms offensively. Perhaps I misunderstood Phil's meaning.
Marc