On 7/28/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
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.
If we were writing a Wikipedia article about them then I would most heartily support making that article as NPOV as possible. That's what Wikipedia is all about.
This is wikien-l. It's a discussion forum. We're allowed to have POVs here.
Um, AFAIK this is a list meant for discussions related to the English Wikipedia, not Anything Wikipedians Would Like To Talk About. We post stuff to the list that other Wikipedians may find interesting because it is related to our work on en, but if we go down the path of discussions irrelevant to our volunteering on Wikipedia (i.e. going on a long frolic bashing other websites, and starting a subfrolic of criticising that bashing), I'm not sure we're in line anymore with the purpose of this mailing list.
Johnleemk