On 7 June 2010 14:55, Victor Vasiliev <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Michael Snow <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If you don't know the history of racial issues in the US, you might not >> realize just how serious a subject lynching is. In that cultural >> context, it is not something to be joked about. > Your post is a brilliant example of agressive disrespect of other > cultures where lynching is merely a verb which means "execution by > mob" (I think if you told someone in Russia that "lyniching" is an > offensive verb, he would most probably belive you said something > silly). Bear in mind that only 0.55 % of the world population are > sensitive about lyncing. Michael's post, by claiming inflammatory content that was not actually present at all, is the sort of thing that someone would post attempting to derail a discussion. I don't think that was his intent, but he still should have known better. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
