On 7/28/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
How do you get that. The people doing the nyah nyah nyah thing, were pointing at clear vandalism. I don't see how that is funny in a sense that wikipedia itself is not a valid target of "wow, you let yourself be vandalised, you dufuses!" jokes.
The bit that was funny was that it wasn't clear vandalism - it was almost believable.
Eh? Almost believable in the sense that it is almost believable that John Seigenthaler was directly involved in the murders of RFK and JFK.
I apologize if I don't share your sense of humour.
The fact that the opinions may have been such that numbskulls who had never met smart neo-nazies in real life might ignorantly ascribe them to hold, does not change the fact that there was no difficulty in ascertaining that the edits were not legit edits by the community in question.
There is a difference between demonising your opponent to such a degree that you will believe anything about them (even that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were not a forgery, but that that it was "almost believable" as a representation of Jewish thought at large), and taking a cool look at the real circumstances in the cold light of day, and checking to see if you are joking *at* the people in question, or whether you are helping them justify their alienation by demonstrating that you aren't going to address them on a level playing field, for whatever reasons.
-- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]