On 11/12/05, Arbeo M arbeo_m@yahoo.de wrote:
Yes, I have. My point was that the very mention of such words can have unwanted side-effects, no matter if they are meant ironically or seriously. Especially when the irony is not obvious to everybody at first sight.
I can agree with you up to the some level...
If someone argues for something without _any_ knowledge about cultures which are included in that "something", (s)he is a fool. If (s)he is a young person, (s)he can learn something in the future and stop being a fool. If (s)he is a mature fool, it is better that society isolate such person to prevent any further damage.
If someone argues for something only because of fun AND without any knowledge about cultures which are included in that "something", (s)he is NOT ONLY a fool, but a very dangerous person. If (s)he is a young person, I hope that (s)he can learn something and that (s)he would not be such person in the future. For such adult persons I think that the less damage is to kill her/him than to wait to see mass graves because of such "Innocent games".
Neoliberal social POV is the biggest bullshit as I know. (And Mark is highly influenced with that kind of bullshit.) It is trying to merge cultures without any knowledge about these cultures. This is the clear example of colonialist behaviour which is deep in the souls of (almost) all Westerners.
And this is not related only to Balkans... I saw the same conversation about Low Saxon. Even it is reasonable to start to work on computational translator between Dutch and German one, it is not reasonable to force people to work together in this moment. The same is for Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian Wikipedias.
And someone is making an irony about our problems? And (s)he is far a way of our problems?