OT: deps article (Re: KGX? WTF?]

[Daniel Molkentin]

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On Saturday 27 July 2002 17:02, Shawn Gordon wrote:

>Ah so you are talking about the editorial that referred to the
>anti-american, anti-israel, anti-semite thread in the kde mail lists.  

There are different oppinions in different parts of the world. Nobody can 
claim to be right (esp. on the ongoing crisis in the middle east), but 
everyone can state his opinion on the ongoing changes. I read Waldo's initial 
posting and I can't find anyting anti-semite in it.

>I found that whole discussion extremely offensive myself.  

I also don't understand why americans are so offended when it comes to 
critisim of their country. Their government makes mistakes just like any 
other government. Too bad that after September 11th 2001, many americans 
consider each and every muslim their very personal enemy. I understand their 
reasons, but then they have to admint that they are biased and _not_ neutral 
(see below).

Please understand that especially here in Germany, calling somebody a Nazi is 
the most offensive defamation possible. I have to admint that I didn't follow 
the entire threat, but calling the whole project to be riddled with Nazis 
based on a thread in an offtopic mailinglist (sorry Tink) is an intense 
violation of every project members dignity. Tell me: Am I a Nazi just because 
I am german and a member of the KDE Project? Please bear in mind that we also 
have active isreali supporters. Following dep's article he'd accuse them of 
cooperating with Nazi's then. Got my point?

And just let me clearly state: 1) The US and Germany are both biased on this 
topic. 2) In this conflict, none of the conflicting parties is behaving the 
"right way". Otherwise there'd be no conflict anymore, right?

If somebody has strong oppinions on that, please direct your reply to kde-cafe 
and put me on cc. core-devel has enough noise and deserves more important 
topics than replies to that most abusive example of journalism. Thanks.

Just my 2 € Cents,

</daniel>

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Daniel Molkentin <molkentin at kde.org> | The K Desktop Environment
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