On 4/15/05, Tony Sidaway minorityreport@bluebottle.com wrote:
Richard Holton said:
I suspect that if someone posted to this list being scornful or mocking of, say, Muslim culture, they would get slapped down hard, and likely be banned from the list if they persisted. Is my suspicion wrong?
Let's test that. I think the Koran is as full of nonsense as the bible. Utterly incredible. Be seeing you.
Actually, Tony, you seem to have missed my point completely. There is a very real difference between criticizing a thing -- even something that some people consider sacred -- and being scornful or mocking of people, individually or as a culture.
So, if you want to test my theory personally (note that I am not asking you to, nor do I want you to) you would have to change your message to mock Christians (as Christians) and Muslims (as Muslims), or their respective cultures.
And you would have to do it in a context where you are not simply being contrary.
Please don't take this as some sort of challenge. I'm not interested in your being insulting of people just to see who gets pissed. After all, that would seem to be quite troll-like. --Rich Holton
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