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:This idea was part of a "you couldn't possible understand" movement which resisted any scholarly or punditish commentary on non-WASP doings. It was used to justify [[Afrocentrism]] and to attack "Western logic"; to justify "invented mathematics" and "ethnic math"; etc. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 15:34, 5 April 2007 (EDT)

:This idea was part of a "you couldn't possible understand" movement which resisted any scholarly or punditish commentary on non-WASP doings. It was used to justify [[Afrocentrism]] and to attack "Western logic"; to justify "invented mathematics" and "ethnic math"; etc. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 15:34, 5 April 2007 (EDT)

Why would one ever use the world "Europe"?  Why not just name all of the countries of Europe evertime you wanted to say Europe?  That way Turkey, which wants to be a part of the EU, wouldn't be offended?   

Why would one ever use the world "Europe"?  Why not just name all of the countries of Europe everytime you wanted to say Europe?  That way Turkey, which wants to be a part of the EU, wouldn't be offended?   

In other words, you keep trying to drag me into an long and tedious argument about why others like myself think the way we think.  I'm not going to convince you to use this word, so why should we continue to waste time arguing about this. We can agree on this: you think the term is offensive. I think it is not offensive, nor do I think the term is antiquated. We can also agree that many people agree with you.  We can agree that some number of people (up until about two weeks ago Ted Turner was one of that number) do not think there is any problem with this or other similar terms. Since we can agree on these facts, can we agree that this is an example of Wikipedia's bias against the traditionalist point of view? Again, I'm not trying to get you to concede anything about the term. I'm just trying to establish that Wikipedia has liberal bias in every corner where one may look for it. [[User:Everwill|Everwill]] 15:51, 5 April 2007 (EDT)

In other words, you keep trying to drag me into an long and tedious argument about why others like myself think the way we think.  I'm not going to convince you to use this word, so why should we continue to waste time arguing about this. We can agree on this: you think the term is offensive. I think it is not offensive, nor do I think the term is antiquated. We can also agree that many people agree with you.  We can agree that some number of people (up until about two weeks ago Ted Turner was one of that number) do not think there is any problem with this or other similar terms. Since we can agree on these facts, can we agree that this is an example of Wikipedia's bias against the traditionalist point of view? Again, I'm not trying to get you to concede anything about the term. I'm just trying to establish that Wikipedia has liberal bias in every corner where one may look for it. [[User:Everwill|Everwill]] 15:51, 5 April 2007 (EDT)