[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 will happen in Alexandria, Egypt

[Casey Brown]

On 10/13/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> on 10/13/07 7:21 PM, Aphaia at aphaia at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Holding Wikimania in a given is never and should not a verdict which
> > country is politically correct. This thread is totally irrelevant to
> > the Wikimedia Foundation. I admit you're discussing something
> > meaningful in a certain regime, but it is not relevant to this
> > mailinglist and methinks the participants of this discussion should be
> > moderated, if they continue it here.
>
> This is not directed at you, specifically, Aphaia, but in response to
> several similar posts here.


...and that post was not directed at you, specifically, Marc.  However, many
of the posters to this topic have taken attacks on each and every jury
member, of which Aphaia is one.  She had every right to post something and
ask for this to stop, it is, after all, full of attacks on her (not
necessarily made by you, Marc).

Marc Riddell
>
> >
> > On 10/14/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> >> On 10/13/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> >>> Ben Yates wrote:
> >>>> Look -- our own governments didn't treat GLBTs so well til recently
> >>>> (see: forcing Allen Turing to take estrogen; turning a blind eye to
> >>>> gay bashings; etc.).  This is an open wound -- it's not shrill or
> >>>> "politically correct" to have serious issues with shrugging your
> >>>> shoulders about a foreign system that your predecessors at home
> fought
> >>>> desperately against.
> >>> And some people in US government would like a constitutional amendment
> >>> to insure that a marriage is between one man and one woman.
> >>>
> >> Which brings up a good point.  How does Egypt treat polygamists?
> >> Better or worse than Georgia?
> >>
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