--- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
But isn't that what the word in fact means? To report on anti-gay prejudice is not to be anti-gay; quite the contrary.
I found the article informative, and I'm hardly anti-gay. While I have grave suspicions about JiL's intentions here, I must protest the condemnation of this article /as such/. If JiL is anti-gay, then he is being more subtle about it (as any decent troll would be) than you seem to be inferring.
Indeed, this is the perfect edit for a troll; it would let a troll call us "fudgepackers" in its heart, while not explicitly condoning the word's usage in any of the article text that the troll actually writes. But the proper response is to neutralise the troll's activities -- say by incorporating the information into [[Homophobic hate speech]] on the grounds that Wikipedia is not a dictionary, thus avoiding a proliferation of articles named after slurs without any appearance of direct censorship -- rather than to attack the troll directly, which only feeds it. (I'm not committed to the position that JiL is a troll, BTW. But I find it a plausible hypothesis, and I'm willing to accept it for the sake of this argument.) -- Toby
Then it should be moved to Wiktionary, not just deleted. LDan
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