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[Ray Saintonge]

Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 5/20/06, Sarah <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I agree that it's a matter of editorial common sense. If the ethnicity
>>is relevant to the person's notability, it's fine to mention it in the
>>intro. If it's harmless, ditto. But if it's irrelevant and arguably
>>racist, anti-Semitic, or Islamophobic, then it's important not to
>>mention it with unseemly haste. We shouldn't have articles starting
>>with: "John Doe is a British Muslim convicted of child rape," or "Jane
>>Doe is an Afro-American who murdered all four of her husbands."
>>There's no harm in mentioning ethnic background in the bio section,
>>but it shouldn't be used as a stick to beat people with (or to beat
>>their ethnicity with).
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>What if they are famous rather than infamous? Is it ok to give the ethnicity
>a bit of a "boost"? 
>
That reminds me of the incident in the movie, "The Mouse on the Moon," 
in which the British TV commentators made a big deal of the fact that 
the watch worn by the astronaut was made in Britain. :-)

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