Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 14:05:21 08/30/99
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On August 30, 1999 at 16:45:59, Will Singleton wrote: >On August 30, 1999 at 16:16:50, Zachariah Amela wrote: > >>I wasn't aware of any such post. Can anyone clue me in? Thanks. > >It was a case of Thorsten making a comment about wife-beating being ok. >However, he didn't mean it that way, it was used very clumsily to illustrate an >unrelated point. But other members felt it was inappropriate, so the whole >thread got nixed. > >Fernando's complaint is unwarranted, since very few posts have been removed by >the current mods (certainly less than during my term). He therefore appears to >argue for zero removals, which is not possible under the terms of the club. > >So I don't understand his position. But I would appreciate a bit less cultural >haughteur, and a bit more tolerance of others' legitimate concerns. > >Will If the battered wife syndrome was brought up, it was not a matter of cultural hauteur (watch the spelling) stemming from Fernando, as the battered wife syndrome is a typically Anglo-Saxon syndrome. Thus, it has nothing whatsoever to do with Santiago de Chile. If Thorsten's illustration was clumsy, it did not merit a deletion but well-worded criticism. We are all clumsy from time to time, aren't we? Rather baffled, Djordje
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