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On 24 July 2003 13:00, wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org <> wrote:
I have never withdrawn my objection to sysop status for 172. I knew he would abuse his status and he has repeatedly, you are just looking at the tip of the iceberg; most instances result from his leftist POV urge to revise history.
Urgh. Quite apart from anything else, 'leftist' is a relativistic, and hence inherently-POV, word; that you consider 'leftist' persons' examination of past events is "revis[ing] history", that you implicitly push the idea that such historical revisionism is bad, and that you generalise on this point, implying that the cause celebre of 'leftist'-ism is said historical revisionism and that all 'leftist' persons, also lend to a disregard for your opinion based on the way you have stated it, I would have thought.
Also, I have no idea what you mean by 'leftist'; perhaps the evil scum- like Red Commies? Disgusting weak French Socialism? Easy-going overly- amenable benevolents, like Stalin? [1]
Surely peoples' politics shouldn't affect what you think of them as responsible people? I know many people more towards (what I would consider) the 'left' and 'right' sides of the political spectrum than I am, and I don't think (significantly)[3] less of them for their views, even though I may disagree with them. Certainly, I don't think they are less capable of rational argument, nor do I consider them more (or less) likely to not want to 'play fair' and attempt to subvert social processes they interact with.
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[1] - Yes, these were all picked deliberately to initiate a commentary[2], and are exceptionally extreme both in my depiction and imagery, but as I have no particular concept of the political background you come from and what you would consider 'normal'. I don't agree with any of my characterisations, for the record.
[2] - Or 'start a fight', if you prefer ;-)
[3] - Obviously, being but an imperfect human, I cannot wholly remove my inherent disregard for the concepts and beliefs of others, but merely reduce them.
Yours, - -- James D. Forrester mailto:jon@eh.org | mailto:csvla@dcs.warwick.ac.uk mailto:jamesdforrester@hotmail.com | mailto:james@jdforrester.org