Posted by Dr. Bob on October 15, 2014, at 16:41:35
In reply to Lou's reply-Th Hsiung-Pilder discussion-ovphoartht » Dr. Bob, posted by Lou Pilder on October 15, 2014, at 11:51:47
> What the issue here involves, is as if you sanctioned the post or not
> What you did was to ask the poster to revise it, which I do not see any revision of {the only way} to be understood by readers This means that since the poster did not revise it, then readers could think that what is in question is supportive because you allowed it to remain unrevised.True. Readers could also think it wasn't supportive because I asked for it to be revised.
> But the whole idea of allowing to be revised is what I object to because how can you revise someone else's quote?
You could quote less. Apparently there was a way to do that:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faith/20041120/msgs/427644.html
but that doesn't seem to work now. I guess they changed their search engine.
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> > A subset of readers could also think that I'm not sanctioning those posts because the outcomes you fear are unlikely.
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> Now there could be or there could not be a rationale basis for that subset of readers to think that. The issue is that I am objecting that you are allowing statements to be seen as civil and supportive that could arouse antisemitic feelings, lead Jews to feel put down, lead Jews to feel that their faith is being put down and statements that put down Jews or Judaism itselfExactly, a subset of readers could think it's unlikely that my actions would lead Jews to feel I'm putting down their faith.
Bob
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