[Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

[Ray Saintonge]

Michael Peel wrote:
> On 10 Oct 2009, at 15:00, geni wrote:
>   
>> The complexity is that in certain groups being anti-wikipedia is a
>> requirement for fitting in. A statement that you take knowledge
>> seriously.
>>     
> I'm sorry; I can understand those sentences separately, but not when  
> they are combined. Wikipedia is a way to take knowledge (and the  
> spread of knowledge) seriously. That's why I'm here.
>
> I would hope that being anti-wikipedia (or anti-knowledge) is not a  
> requirement for high-school teachers.
>
>   

I think I understood him correctly. Since the second "sentence" isn't a 
sentence at all, reading the full stop at the end of the first as a 
colon makes it all clear.  The statement describes a regrettable, though 
understandable, social dynamic.  That dynamic is on a par with those who 
would not vote for Obama because his middle name is Hussein, or those 
who would ostracize an individual for not being Christian enough. We can 
question the intelligence of such people, but we cannot doubt their 
existence.


Ec