On 8/3/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
In the "real world", the categories of "victim" and "persecutor" are far from being completely disjoint, as seen repeatedly in history. The Christians were persecuted and martyred by the Romans, but later gained political power and perpetrated the Crusades and the Inquisition. The Serbs and Croats, the Irish Catholics and Protestants, the Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds, and lots of other sets of groups, have alternated between being the victims of persecution and being the perpetrators of it. Why should things be any different with the personalities and groups on Wikipedia?
hippies, rednecks, UPS, fedex. playstation, xbox, yankees, red sox. coffee, cigarettes, montagues, capulets. oxford, cambridge, e-tards, candy kids. spartans, athenians, democrats, republicans. lucas, roddenberry, mozart, salieri. lakers, celtics, romanovs, bolsheviks. grasshoppers, unicorns, aggies, longhorns. springfield, shelbyville, roosevelt, san juan hill. free love, safe sex, the usual suspects. rockers, mods, crips, bloods, easter bunny, santa claus, pirates, ninjas! tarzan, king kong, let's just try to get along...
With vague apologies to Rodney King (and Billy Joel for that matter) —C.W.