Eloquence wrote in part:
- 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