Comments on: Literally Rewriting History: Coleman Goes into Wikipedia http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/2006/01/31/literally-rewriting-history-coleman-goes-into-wikipedia/ Robert Fischer and Brian Hurt on Punditry, Programming Languages, and Other Religious Issues Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:21:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: The Cheap Sitcom Clip Scene Blog Post | Enfranchised Mind http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/2006/01/31/literally-rewriting-history-coleman-goes-into-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-33562 The Cheap Sitcom Clip Scene Blog Post | Enfranchised Mind Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:00:14 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/archive/2006/01/31/65#comment-33562 [...] “Read the comments and take a look, and it’s clear to see that the history isn’t going through any kind of Hegelian evolution (as Wikipedia’s founders argue it will), but that it is simply being driven to extremes by people on either side and then dragged back to the other extreme by people who respond.” (Literally Rewriting History: Coleman Goes Into Wikipedia) [...] [...] “Read the comments and take a look, and it’s clear to see that the history isn’t going through any kind of Hegelian evolution (as Wikipedia’s founders argue it will), but that it is simply being driven to extremes by people on either side and then dragged back to the other extreme by people who respond.” (Literally Rewriting History: Coleman Goes Into Wikipedia) [...]

]]> By: bhurt-aw http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/2006/01/31/literally-rewriting-history-coleman-goes-into-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-125 bhurt-aw Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:32:25 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/archive/2006/01/31/65#comment-125 Other people <a HREF="http://darksyde.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/31/22212/5158" rel="nofollow">beat me to it</a>. Although, to be brutally honest, of all the sins of the Republicans, even just of all the sins of Norm Coleman, this has to rank in the least. It's tasteless and childish and stupid, but who does it really hurt? There is a trend towards the criminalization of politics (spearheaded, I point out, by the Republicans), a trend to blow up every single minor little thing into a "scandal". If you can't show me actual people being hurt by this, I'm inclined to just ignore it. Other people beat me to it.

Although, to be brutally honest, of all the sins of the Republicans, even just of all the sins of Norm Coleman, this has to rank in the least. It’s tasteless and childish and stupid, but who does it really hurt?

There is a trend towards the criminalization of politics (spearheaded, I point out, by the Republicans), a trend to blow up every single minor little thing into a “scandal”. If you can’t show me actual people being hurt by this, I’m inclined to just ignore it.

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