[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia and anti-Semitism

[Toby Bartels]

Eloquence wrote in part:

>5) Ed holds the position that, even if nobody disagrees with the fact that
>Wagner was an anti-Semite, it should be attributed, even if the attribution is
>something as fishy as "is universally regarded as".

But Wagner is *not* universally regarded as anti-Semitic.
This means that we clearly have to make it "widely regarded",
regardless of whether we should state as fact what is universally regarded.

I will try to find an argument that I read against the charge
(and not on some sort of revisionist web site either!),
so that I can summarise it on Wikipedia.
But the gist was that anti-Semitism is
a nationalist philosophy originiating in the 19th century
that goes beyond merely accepting a society's dominant prejudices.
Analogously, there's a difference between being a white supremacist
and believing that blacks commit more crimes than whites in the US
(a false but not uncommon belief here).


-- Toby