Ah yes, David. We must shock people into being aware of what is happening in the world. It's mandatory. How else would Wikimedia function?
I know that's sarcastic. But it's exactly the kind of attitude - that forcing people to confront whatever cause the POTD/MOTD person wants them to confront is a useful method of education - that reduces the value of Commons. The person who selected the image does not care that most of the people who viewed that image saw only dead bodies without context. Yes, the world is brutal. It's not our job to make it less so, nor is our job to confront people with its brutality unexpectedly. Is that image appropriate for viewers who have themselves been victims of violence, including all those in the countries mentioned? What about Holocaust survivors, many of whom still suffer from the horrendous trauma of those events more than sixty years later? They have to see this again so that... why exactly?
Risker/Anne
On 9 May 2014 16:00, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The actual argument from Talk:Main Page:
"Well, I have deliberately selected this frame. And yes, it is a shocking picture of victims killed by the inhumanity of a totalitarian ideology. The frame shows exactly the result of such a belief. For me a "softer" motive would be a belittlement of the historical events in Nazi Germany. I'm sorry, but the world is often shockingly brutal, this is the reality in which we must still live (open your eyes in direction to Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, South-Sudan, Nigeria and so on and so on...). "
I don't find your morning cornflakes (please don't try to claim third parties' cornflakes) a compelling counterargument.
- d.
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