Fine and dandy but pointless bashing is pointless. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected] > wrote:
> On 02/28/2011 01:32 PM, Matt Joyce wrote: > > Beats the german eagle though. =P > > It's not about whose imperialist mascot beats whose imperialist mascot. > > > Can we stop the america bashing plz. > > It's not america-bashing to point out that symbols already associated > with imperialism are likely to to be ill-received as symbols of freedom. > > This is an international list, and for the best dreams of freedombox to > succeed, it needs to be an international project. This means that any > country is liable to come up for criticism, and we need to take it > seriously (and not defensively). > > I assume you don't consider the recent "Tahrir Square" thread to be > unacceptable "egypt-bashing" on this list. People need to be able to > discuss the political ramifications of the work, even if it happens to > make some country's government look bad occasionally. > > --dkg > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > >
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