[WikiEN-l] More colonialist ravings

[Stevertigo]

> Robert again (gosh) : I don't understand why Anthere is making personal
attacks
> towards me.  I was disturbed by Entmoot of Troll's
> anti-Jewish remarks.  Anthere's response to this was to
> ignore the content of my post, make a defense of EofT, and
> then attack me. What should one conclude from her
> behaviour?

Anthere was putting it all into context - the context of Robert - who has a
long history of crying wolf - "anti-Semitism" - "anti-Semitism"...  (Its
old. I'll write up a psychological profile of you if you like.) There was
nothing anti-Semitic in the statement - (which was obvious ) so Anthere made
the logical leap of explaining the "why," rather than just the "what." And
the "why" seems to be more with you Robert.
Funny, huh?

> Listen: I will make it simple.  When you have an
> intellectual disagreement with someone, don't descend to
> racial or ethnic stereotypes or slurs.  We don't want bigots
> here. Is this so outrageous?

This is agreeable. The problem is Robert that - for a great many
reasons -its not clear to us that your *not a bigot, Robert.  Here, in fact,
what your attempting is - as Toby (I think) alluded to - is to provoke
Godwin's Law. Youre by far the quickest to call people the name "bigot" -
etc... (Which reminds us of another law - "He who smelt it - dealt it.")

> Further, if someone is unable to clearly express what they
> mean in English, then what they are writing here is almost
> useless.

This is wrong - even a broken, unintellegible stub can be transformed. Your
wanting to oust people for not writing English well is at the very least,
elitist - and smacks of the same kind of bigotry you espouse countering.

At least your tone seems more reasonable. I dont want you to leave - youre a
valuable point of view. You simply need to tone down the acrimony. Others
have told you this - I'm sure your Mother probably has too - at one point or
another. I know mine has.

Xiao xin!
-SM