No More Equality and Fairness

Debbie elfundeb at comcast.net
Sun Jul 10 18:11:49 UTC 2005


That's right, for those of you who don't think I wield a sharp 
enough axe, I'm proposing to delete an entire category, 1.1.5 
Equality and Fairness (was 115, now 100 and shrinking rapidly)
and perhaps its subcategory 1.1.5.1 Inequality, Bullying and 
Discrimination (was 215, now 179 and shrinking even more rapidly).

First, every Equality and Fairness post, and every Inequality post 
is (or should be) also coded to other categories where they fit much 
better, such as 1.1.2.1, Following/Breaking Rules, or 3.2.6, Class 
System, Racism and Bigotry.  Coding something to Equality (or 
Inequality, if you can figure out which posts go where), doesn't 
really add anything.  Besides, no one is claiming that the WW is, or 
should be fair. ;-)

Second, bullying and discrimination should be split into different 
subcategories, as they really aren't related.  Bullying seems to fit 
better with 1.1.7 Parenting and Child Development than with 
discrimination and perhaps could be made a subset of that category.

Finally, I know there is a difference between 1.1.5.1 discrimination 
(as a theme of the books) and 3.2.6 racism and bigotry (in the WW).  
However, in practice it's very hard to decide what goes where; many 
posts touch on both.  So we might want to consider merging the two. 
I hesitate to recommend eliminating discrimination as a metatheme 
category.  If 1.1.5.1 and 3.2.6 were easy to distinguish, I wouldn't 
even suggest it, and it's just as easy for me to keep the category.  

So what does everyone think?

Debbie
noting that an astonishing 75 posts from a single thread ("Fred and 
George:  The Bullies You Do Know" and its progeny) survived the 
first cut, and also noting that that we rejected over 200 posts from 
the same thread, a solid 2/3 plus rejection rate






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