[Noisebridge-discuss] [drama] New logo = terrorism?

Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson mik at stanford.edu
Sat Jan 9 19:08:16 UTC 2010


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On Jan 9, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
> Jonathan Foote wrote:
>> So where exactly is the consensus on this?
>>
>> They may have had cool logos, but let's not forget the RAF and the
>> Weather Underground committed acts of violence against civilians.
>> The RAF killed 34 people in bombings and shootings. The WU was
>> clueless as well as well as violent, killing its own members with an
>> ineptly constructed nail bomb.
>>
>> None of this constitutes excellence in my book.
>>
>> How is the new logo not representative of -- or linked to -- violence
>> and ineptitude?
>>
>
> I think you've committed the 21st century version of Godwin's law by
> calling the new logo terrorism. We need a word for that; anyone?
>

Well ... the implication was there pretty solidly in the links to the  
RAF and the WU logos already...

Sure, Jonathan spelled out the word - but it wasn't out of the blue  
precisely.


Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, Dr.rer.nat
Postdoctoral researcher
mik at math.stanford.edu






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