On Wed, 25 May 2011, George Herbert wrote:
You are conflating the term (which associates someone
with human
waste) and our coverage of the term (which describes the term,
descriptively, historically, and cultural and political contexts).
No, I am not. I am conflating what the article says and the article does.
What the article *does* is smear a human being. The fact that our rules don't
consider it to be a POV violation as long as as the article doesn't state a
position is a loophole in the rules.
You can't neutrally discuss how a person is compared to shit. Not in any
real-world sense.