>
>>> On 4/10/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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:
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>>> There is no reason to resort to namecalling ("morons").
>
> on 4/10/07 10:05 PM, Phil Sandifer at Snowspinner(a)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(a)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(a)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