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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] What. The. Fuck??!?
From:       Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher () student ! canberra ! edu ! au>
Date:       2006-05-12 9:14:40
Message-ID: 44645200.4000307 () student ! canberra ! edu ! au
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G'day Ben,

> Mark Gallagher wrote:
>>I agree entirely.  Ben and Greg displayed a remarkable lack of maturity 
>>in this issue.  I can see how they got a bit carried away after some 
>>idiot changed "is Christian" to "claims to be Christian", but deliberate 
>>could-be-perceived-as-vandalism[0], complete with rotating crucifix[1], 
>>was quite disgusting behaviour for an admin.
> 
> ...
> 
>>[1] I know what Cyde was aiming for: "seeing from all angles", etc.  But
>>     the end result was simply offensive.
> 
> I've heard a lot of people claiming that it's offensive but I'm just not
> seeing it.  How is it offensive?  All of the Christians I personally
> know who I've pointed it out to thought it was either funny or annoying,
> but not offensive.

Mocking the cross?  You can't see what's wrong with that?

> For what it's worth, I guess you could consider this Wikipedian
> space-training, because in space, there is no up, and you are liable to
> routinely see things from all angles.
> 
> That's me, always thinking ahead.  Yup.

Watch my sides split.


-- 
Mark Gallagher
"What?  I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!"
- Danger Mouse


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