[WikiEN-l] The Second Rape: Victim-Blaming (was Re: Self-sensorship, how far should it go?)

[Tony Sidaway]

On 8/2/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/2/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/2/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > BTW, first there was a comparison to appeasing the Nazis, now we've got
> > > a comparison to rape. This is a bit over the top, IMO.
> >
> > Possibly.  But I don't understand what the big deal is about removing
> > tripe from the pages of Wikipedia.  We're here to edit an
> > encyclopedia, not pander to conspiracy theorists of those who take
> > their rubbish seriously.
>
>
> I don't consider "conspiracy theorists" to be good faith editors who have
> never heard of the abuse against SV asking questions about what seems to
> them to be an interesting tidbit of news which is probably false (but
> nevertheless interesting).

No of course they're not, they're people who take them seriously and
in doing so compound the original offence.