[Freedombox-discuss] Promoting Freedom Box

[Matt Joyce]

Fine and dandy but pointless bashing is pointless.

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net
> wrote:

> On 02/28/2011 01:32 PM, Matt Joyce wrote:
> > Beats the german eagle though.  =P
>
> It's not about whose imperialist mascot beats whose imperialist mascot.
>
> > Can we stop the america bashing plz.
>
> It's not america-bashing to point out that symbols already associated
> with imperialism are likely to to be ill-received as symbols of freedom.
>
> This is an international list, and for the best dreams of freedombox to
> succeed, it needs to be an international project.  This means that any
> country is liable to come up for criticism, and we need to take it
> seriously (and not defensively).
>
> I assume you don't consider the recent "Tahrir Square" thread to be
> unacceptable "egypt-bashing" on this list.  People need to be able to
> discuss the political ramifications of the work, even if it happens to
> make some country's government look bad occasionally.
>
>        --dkg
>
>
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