(not pointing to anyone specifically)
could we please stop this side track now? I think everybody knows what the
other person means, and it doesn't really matter after all... at least not
to this discussion.
Lodewijk
2010/6/7 Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com>
--- On Mon, 6/7/10, Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a
Bad Idea,
part 2
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<
foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 8:55 AM
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:42 AM,
Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)verizon.net>
wrote:
If you don't know the history of racial
issues in the
US, you might not
realize just how serious a subject lynching is.
In
that cultural
context, it is not something to be joked about.
Your post is a brilliant example of agressive disrespect of
other
cultures where lynching is merely a verb which means
"execution by
mob" (I think if you told someone in Russia that
"lyniching" is an
offensive verb, he would most probably belive you said
something
silly). Bear in mind that only 0.55 % of the world
population are
sensitive about lyncing.
That post can only being seen as an example of "agressive disrespect of
other cultures" by people who think happening to be born in the USA is an
agressive disrespect of other cultures. Americans are people too!
Birgitte SB
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