On Apr 24, 2005, at 2:15 PM, Timwi wrote:
Rowan Collins wrote:
On 4/24/05, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Joseph Reagle wrote:
Given the latest fire-storm on questions of authority and peer review, this might make some smile! :):) http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4116&n=3
The article is a public humiliation of a hard-working 10-year-old student, and condones the bullying he receives from classmates. That kind of story makes you smile?
Adults are humiliated with peer-review all the time....
And just in case: you do realise it's fiction, don't you. ;)
Where does it say that? The site passes itself off as a "news source", so I don't think it was unreasonable of me to think it was real.
Uhm, FOX news plays itself as "real", too. Do you believe them, as well?
As far as I know, The Onion's readers are not primarily in the "5th-grade" age range
I'm sure The Onion's readers are not *primarily* Jews, either, so is it okay for The Onion to be anti-Semitic?
Did I miss something? Was something in the onion report anti-Semitic?
-Bop