[Seattle-editorial] Fwd: [Www-newswire] PROPOSED: Play Soccer for Jesus Fucking Christ

[anarch3m]

 I would like to sollicit  opinions on this censorship/tolerance issue.

On or offlists.

walt
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DATE: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:43:09
From: Doug Morris <being at enteract.com>
To: www-features at indymedia.org
Cc:www-newswire at lists.indymedia.org
joking...

This is a Portland local feature title though that just came onto the local 
wire:

Play Soccer for Jesus Fucking Christ
http://portland.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/11/2002-11.html#6138

It reads funnily enough...

But, not joking...

since we are on the topic of feature policies...

are there editorial policies about offensive language?

seriously, the title needlessly offends a large a number of folks...

I note that the Portland site has written religiously open articles about 
Islam.

Would Portland post this title to a feature:

Play Soccer for Fucking Muhammad

No.

And...
Well, if you look at the news today:  you will see that 100 people were 
killed in riots in Nigeria because a newspaper ran a story saying that 
Muhammad might marry a beauty queen from the upcoming miss world contest.

Christians have done just as bad in the name of trivial issues.

In general, insults with no content are not a good news or activist 
practice to encourage, especially of religious icons with potentially very 
violent followers.

Spark,
What do you think?
To whomever put this up:
Would you mind suggesting dropping the "Fucking" is appropriate since this 
syndicated to the global feature wire.

What do you all think?

cc'd to www-newswire at lists.indymedia.org as perhaps the better place for 
this but the group seems rather quiet.... 

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