OK. The point I would like to make is that the group described below were characterized as "BJP/RSS right wing kooks"
On Monday 10 Dec 2007 7:45 am, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Editing characterized by > > 1. Aggressive nationalism (to the point of claiming that incidents like the > Satichaura Ghat massacre didn't occur at all - where a bunch of sepoys let > the lucknow garrison + their families under General Wheeler get into boats, > and then opened fire, killing several men, women and children ...). Oh, > and an aggressive campaign to call a page "First War of Indian > Independence" rather than "Indian Rebellion of 1857" or "Sepoy Mutiny" > > 2. A few fun Wikipedia tricks - tagteam editing to get around 3RR, > wikilawyering etc, followed by creating sockpuppet editors. Upon asking about that we have information that the term "right wing" is applied to the following: "It is when one gooseteps in khakhi shorts down the road, when one claims that the Hindu civilization is 10,000 years old, when one thumps on Herr Hegdewar's books and goes around burning Christian families, etc." So the Wikipedia editors that you describe are also Goose stepping murderers of Christians based on the information I read. I am saying that this is what is described as profiling and a gradual "creeping extension" of a group's odious characteristics based on the one common denominator of mutual dislike of that group by a number of people who add more and more new and offensive characteristics to a group. I think the importance of this essentially tribal attitude is underestimated. It is group profiling of Muslims that leads to the death of innocent Muslims in riots. In the last three weeks or so we have seen group punishment of lawyers by an Islamist groups who conducted bomb blasts in the courts of Lucknow and Varanasi. I think group profiling is a slippery slope that every individual who values individual rights must be careful not to propagate and perpetuate. We then become guilty of the very characteristic that we accuse others of displaying. There was Bible lesson that used to be read out in school. I think it was the "Sermon on the Mount" that basically stated "Don't look for the mote in another's eye when you have a beam in your own eye" If we indulge in group profiling, we cannot expect that the favor will not be ruturned to us. shiv
