On 26/05/2011, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: >> 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.
Quite the contrary, I don't think it's unbalanced. I'm sure that the term took off, because many people thought it was an entirely appropriate metaphor. AFAIK he was more or less calling for putting (potentially) large numbers of homosexuals in prison essentially just for being homosexual, and he was trying to put himself in a position where he would have more ability to actually achieve that. Compared to that, a rude word and a reduced chance of being a top politician for a single individual is not very nice, but not nearly as not nice as trying to remove people's liberty for long periods for what appears to be a victimless 'crime'. So I actually don't feel sorry for him at all, in fact he really seems to have deserved it. > Fred -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l