On 06/02/2008, Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com wrote:
Correction:
If another race/group/whatever imposes a rule on themselves then it is not racism to *refuse to* bend over backwards to make sure what you do doesn't break their rule.
Um, yes it is, depending on what 'bending over backwards' means in practice (often that bar is set ridiculously low).
Consider the case where the owner of a business may pass a rule that none of his staff may wear hats (just for simple uniform reasons).
Sounds reasonable, but in the UK, this was judged racist due to the large number of Pakistan immigrants that wore turbans, since they had to wear turbans for religious/cultural reasons, and since it greatly reduced their chances of getting employment, and hence caused economic hardship. Similar deal with some jewish people.
I really don't respect this argument you're making here Chris, it's more or less inherently racist, and your argument that it's all inherently simply 'PC' is not well founded. We need to have reasonable discussions about tradeoffs, not simply declare that there is absolutely no problem and not imply that anyone that anyone that thinks differently is 'insane'.
I do not see how any sane person could argue that this will make Wikipedia higher quality. Not one bit.
Quality is a lot to do with how well you meet the users requirements, needs or wishes; something that doesn't unnecessarily annoy the users would be considered higher quality.
-- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers