[WikiEN-l] Anti-intellectualism

[Steve Summit]

Michel wrote:
> Diffs or it didn't happen!
> :)

I see the smiley, so perhaps I shouldn't come back with a serious
response, but this interests me.

It is very, very difficult to discuss a general issue on this
list.  If you (1) provide a specific example, people immediately
dive in on the specifics of the example, and conclude either that
it wasn't a problem after all, or that you (who brought it up)
were overly emotionally involved and need to take a step back.
But if you (2) try to leave the specific example out, to force
the discussion to remain on the more interesting general issue,
people don't want to think about it at all, except to insist on
a specific example, at which point goto (1).