On 7/28/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
There is a difference between demonising your
opponent to such
a degree that you will believe anything about them (even that
the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were not a forgery, but that
that it was "almost believable" as a representation of Jewish
thought at large), and taking a cool look at the real circumstances
in the cold light of day, and checking to see if you are joking *at*
the people in question, or whether you are helping them justify
their alienation by demonstrating that you aren't going to address
them on a level playing field, for whatever reasons.
If we were writing a Wikipedia article about them then I would most
heartily support making that article as NPOV as possible. That's what
Wikipedia is all about.
This is wikien-l. It's a discussion forum. We're allowed to have POVs
here.
Um, AFAIK this is a list meant for discussions related to the English
Wikipedia, not Anything Wikipedians Would Like To Talk About. We post stuff
to the list that other Wikipedians may find interesting because it is
related to our work on en, but if we go down the path of discussions
irrelevant to our volunteering on Wikipedia (i.e. going on a long frolic
bashing other websites, and starting a subfrolic of criticising that
bashing), I'm not sure we're in line anymore with the purpose of this
mailing list.
Johnleemk