> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> > wrote: >>>> Again - I am not Cirt, and I find the article reasonably balanced. >>> >>> Having an article that associates someone with human waste be >>> "reasonably >>> balanced" is like claiming that an article about the Richard Gere >>> gerbil >>> rumor (as long as it stated the rumor was false) would be reasonably >>> balanced. >>> The association of a living person with shit is inherently unbalanced; >>> it spreads a negative POV towards that person, no matter how many >>> disclaimers >>> we add saying that we don't think he's really like shit. >> >> Well said. That's the problem. >> >> Fred > > All things considered, it's a societal problem for people to be > claiming Santorum is human excrement, that women shouldn't have a > right to own property or vote, that homosexuals should be beaten up or > killed for being who they are, that blacks (or Latinos, or Asians, or > Jews, or whoever) are less human than (whites or whomever), or that > some adults advocate adult/child sexual relations.
None of the examples you cite are living people. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
