[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

Sun Mar 9 15:08:24 UTC 2008

On 09/03/2008, Ian A Holton <poeloq at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm really unsure how I stand on this issue. Still, spreading them out
>  into different categories / galleries would be a good solution and not
>  very controversial in my opinion.
>
>  Finally, instead of having an easily overlookable text stating that we,
>  as in the project, are neutral and not political, how about a nice big
>  template warning that the following images contain politically (insert
>  $word, e.g. religion ...) controversial and are included for $reason.

Deciding which images are politically controversial seems quite vague
and subjective to me. I don't think it would be possible to fairly
carry this out and would give religious/political partisans a lot of
power. A lot of images will be controversial to some: images
displaying any human flesh at all, images which do not deal with
[religious figure] in a way the religion would like, images which do
not deal with [political figure] in a way the religion would like.

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)