Talk:Damon Young (writer)

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YourJudge (talk) 04:59, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What is your question? 331dot (talk) 08:29, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

331dot, thanks for your attention. The page has been subject to persist vandalism. I was about to submit to RPP to request a short break but if you can help that would be great. Thanks much. Innisfree987 (talk) 12:39, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Page protected. 331dot (talk) 14:15, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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[1], [2] In a March 2021 opinion column, Young said ~~"whiteness a "pandemic" and said the "only way to stop it" is to "kill it."~~ "whiteness is a public health crisis". Vaselineeeeeeee^★★★ 18:50, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Vaselineeeeeeee, this is false. He suggested killing “white supremacy”. Here is the full quote: “White supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect. Which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it. I guess a vaccine could work, too. But we’ve had 400 years to develop one, so I won’t hold my breath.” What you’ve written is at minimum a serious BLP violation; those policies apply equally to talk pages so I suggest you remove it. Innisfree987 (talk) 19:05, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I was just quoting what the Washington Examiner quoted but it does seem to be picking quotes from two separate paragraphs of his, one about whiteness, one about white supremacy, and combines them. The quote you added is not the one garnering attention, the one garnering attention is Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expectancies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people—white people and people who are not white. I parked this here to see if any other criticisms about his piece come from this. Vaselineeeeeeee^★★★ 19:19, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for correcting. I’m not opposed to including if it does get sufficient RS coverage to demonstrate significance. I haven’t seen anything (there were a lot of IPs adding personal commentary to the entry but all unsourced.) Innisfree987 (talk) 19:25, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[3]I think it's a bit disingenuous to not include at least some reference to Mr. Young's more caustic side. Regardless of your politics it's difficult to deny his remarks are being taken as a call to action for genocide (just read the comments section). Also, the original published article at The Root [4] does indeed use the word "pandemic". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tususpect (talk • contribs) 13:45, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tususpect, I see this is your first edit. Welcome! Editing operates a little differently than people often imagine as readers. We include things (or not) based on how many reliable sources have discussed them. This is because WP is a tertiary source, collecting the sum of knowledge already vetted by reliable secondary sources: no original research allowed. So something can get a lot of heat in a comment section or Twitter but we don’t write about it until sufficient secondary sources do. WP is not censored so it’s not a matter of anyone’s politics (and anyway presumably some people share his politics while others object, so it’s not necessarily his supporters who will unhappy about including an accurate description of what he wrote). Hope that helps! Innisfree987 (talk) 15:28, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]