[Foundation-l] Returning to Foundation-L
Florence Devouard
Anthere9 at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 1 20:43:01 UTC 2008
Mike Godwin wrote:
>
> Hi, Wikimedians.
>
> Michael Snow has persuaded me to return to Foundation-L, and his
> arguments have enough merit that I've decided to give the list another
> shot.
>
> I should add at the outset that I actually do take frivolous
> comparisons to Nazis or the Holocaust quite seriously -- I think
> joking about either subject tends to trivialize a very traumatic
> historical period, and I think we're better off remembering that
> period with a great deal of consideration and seriousness. I
> originally left this list because I felt that almost any response I
> might make to such a comparison was complicit in such trivialization,
> and I didn't want to be complicit.
>
> That said, I am of course willing to be myself the object of joking
> and abuse on this list, which is probably as it should be.
>
>
> --Mike
Glad Michael could convince you :-)
Welcome back Mike
Ant
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