There has been a recent rash of editors for little-respected rags apologizing for the content of these shmatas to the community at large. It is important now that The Gource state: This is a thing we will never do. There are a couple of important reasons for this.
1) Our editors read our content. In this case, I expect blogspot's spellcheck to give this article a once-over, and then I myself may re-read it to reaffirm the veracity of my own statements. There is no way anything can slip by--in other words, everything that should be edited, has.
2) We do not wait to see the public response to our material and then jump back if we have pushed too hard. We have 100% confidence in the integrity of our publication, and about 17% confidence in the integrity of the community at large (the figure is slightly higher when the test sample includes only readers of The Gource.
1) Our editors read our content. In this case, I expect blogspot's spellcheck to give this article a once-over, and then I myself may re-read it to reaffirm the veracity of my own statements. There is no way anything can slip by--in other words, everything that should be edited, has.
2) We do not wait to see the public response to our material and then jump back if we have pushed too hard. We have 100% confidence in the integrity of our publication, and about 17% confidence in the integrity of the community at large (the figure is slightly higher when the test sample includes only readers of The Gource.
I state this here because there has been considerable fallout from a recent article in The Gource. The article in question referred to gays ("homosexuals") as "mincing effetes in ballet slippers" who wish they could "be women." One letter to us states:
Sirs:
In a recent article of The Grimary Gource, you stated [see above]...I personally am very offended. I am a longtime follower of The Gource and usually agree 100% with your politics and opinions. I have often wondered, though, why there aren't more [gay people] who write for your publication. Your article settled the issue for me. It is not that your political views in general are [homophobic], but rather that somehow, by a strange coincidence, the vast majority of people who hold your political views are [homophobic]. You do a great disservice to those of us who have no problem with [gay people] but happen to agree that ugly people should not be allowed on the T.
We were prepared for this. We have heard these criticisms before, and knowingly printed what we did, steadfast in our feelings. We refuse to back down, because we have principles and we know they are right. Can you say the same?
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