At 2002-11-11 14:45 +0100, Magnus Manske wrote:
elian wrote:
But then why are users being prevented from asserting their opposition to the US in its current state as a polluting warmonger ruled by an oil baron despot?
Because of the "Anti". Enlisting as a queer user says nothing about your attitude about non-queer people. Positive categories are fine (ecologists, human right or peace activists, atheist, christian or muslim), negative categories are evil: "anti-christian", "antisemite", because they don't say only something about the self-categorized person but also insult other people.
That's exactly why I had the "Anti-American users" page deleted (which Lir instantly identified as "vandalism"). People who are "anti" often don't know a better alternative, or else they could say they're "pro"-something ;-) Besides, having an anti-America page on an American server does discredit itself somewhat...
So it's okay to be pro Osama bin Laden, but bad to be anti American? ;-)
Greetings, Jaap
PS. I am neither. I'm more against digest readers in general and especially those who respond to messages without changing the subject header. ;-)