Robert Fernandez thinks it is "remarkably inappopriate" to put the phrase "*experts **are scum"* in quotation marks as if it were a quotation from the Signpost. No. This is a quotation, which perhaps he did not recognise, from a rather long-standing and well-known essay, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Anti-elitism which discusses this very issue and is a convenient and common way of summarising the attitude exhibited in the article.
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You're right, my mistake. Sorry I did not get your allusion, just as you didn't get the entire point of the Signpost piece. These things happen.
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Renée Bagslint reneebagslint@gmail.com wrote:
Robert Fernandez thinks it is "remarkably inappopriate" to put the phrase "*experts **are scum"* in quotation marks as if it were a quotation from the Signpost. No. This is a quotation, which perhaps he did not recognise, from a rather long-standing and well-known essay, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Anti-elitism which discusses this very issue and is a convenient and common way of summarising the attitude exhibited in the article.
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Usually a good idea to cite your source for a quotation that may be controversial, or where the source may not be obvious. (Yes, this is common sense, but common sense is not as common as it is touted to be. (as we all know, or do we?)) Cheers, Peter
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Robert Fernandez thinks it is "remarkably inappopriate" to put the phrase "*experts **are scum"* in quotation marks as if it were a quotation from the Signpost. No. This is a quotation, which perhaps he did not recognise, from a rather long-standing and well-known essay, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Anti-elitism which discusses this very issue and is a convenient and common way of summarising the attitude exhibited in the article.
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