--- Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia(a)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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