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Skyring wrote:
On 5/17/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Skyring wrote:
On 5/16/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Skyring wrote:
On 5/16/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Skyring wrote: [snip]
>CE/BCE is already a standard in many disciplines. Make it so in WP. >
...except where use of BC and AD is appropriate.
As Steven said "a general policy that BC and AD represent a Christian Point of View and should be used only when they are appropriate, that is, in the context of expressing or providing an account of a Christian point of view."
I support his standard. I think it is plain common sense. Don't you?
Reading the proposed policy page, a poll of *44* people - out of however many million speakers of English, *44* - decided that BCE/CE was the more favoured term. That's a mighty poor sample. And yet people are claiming "NPOV" and "countering systematic bias".
Just answer the question, please. Evasion just leads me to wonder about your motive.
Evasion is caused by me actually reading the page and trying to work out what is really going on. I'm not so sure that BCE and CE are any less POV than AD and BC are. In fact, I'm starting to wonder whether they are in fact anti-Christian POV.
Just answer the question, please.
You mean whether it's plain sense or not? No, it's not. It's actually /more/ POV than BC/AD is, because it makes the *assertion* that the Birth of Jesus, whether is Christ, Lord, Prophet or otherwise, is *common* to *all* cultures - it's Western Imperialism and Political Correctness at its worst.
- -- Alphax GnuPG key: 0xF874C613 - http://tinyurl.com/8mpg9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' - C. S. Lewis
Alphax wrote:
It's actually /more/ POV than BC/AD is, because it makes the *assertion* that the Birth of Jesus, whether is Christ, Lord, Prophet or otherwise, is *common* to *all* cultures - it's Western Imperialism and Political Correctness at its worst.
Why do so many people associate Political Correctness with NPOV?
It is politically correct to state that all humans are equal in dignity and rights, but as much as we would like for that to be universally accepted, it isn't, and so it is POV.
Timwi
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Timwi wrote:
Alphax wrote:
It's actually /more/ POV than BC/AD is, because it makes the *assertion* that the Birth of Jesus, whether is Christ, Lord, Prophet or otherwise, is *common* to *all* cultures - it's Western Imperialism and Political Correctness at its worst.
Why do so many people associate Political Correctness with NPOV?
It is politically correct to state that all humans are equal in dignity and rights, but as much as we would like for that to be universally accepted, it isn't, and so it is POV.
Timwi
I said it was politically correct, *not* NPOV. Political correctness is MPOV.
- -- Alphax GnuPG key: 0xF874C613 - http://tinyurl.com/8mpg9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' - C. S. Lewis