[WikiEN-l] Can we ban 172 now? And VV too! (in response to Fred Bauder)

[Ray Saintonge]

Stan Shebs wrote:

> Abe Sokolov wrote:
>
>> Re: "Hey - let's all calm down and take a deep breath. Now please be 
>> nice to one
>> another!"
>> -- mav
>>
>> I'm already calm, so I don't need to take a deep breath. I'm just 
>> sitting here at my desk, kind of tired after not getting much sleep, 
>> looking over some papers and research, checking e-mail in various 
>> accounts, checking news sites, and the like.
>>
>> But I am fed up with Wikipedia, though, and especially people like 
>> Stan and Fred. I doubt that I'll be able to be nice to either of them 
>> until they stop spreading these lies about me being a Stalinist... 
>
>
> I've never said you were a Stalinist. I do think you're heavily biased;
> you always have an excuse or apology for a leftwinger's action, and
> are always ready to blame a rightwinger for engaging in exactly the
> same kinds of actions. As it happens, there's a strain of academic
> history for which this degree of bias is considered normal, and another
> strain on the rightwing side too; an unfortunate state of affairs. It's
> gotten so bad these days that you can't usefully read anything on
> 20th-century history before finding out the left/right bias of the 
> writer.

I agree that you weren't the one to introduce the term Stalinist.  It 
can be difficult to steer a middle course between the blind idealism of 
the left, and the blind realism of the right.

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