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BS: Armistice Day - selective deleting
| GUEST,Allan Conn | 12 Nov 13 - 12:19 PM | |
| GUEST,Musket curious | 12 Nov 13 - 12:26 PM | |
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Subject: BS: Armistice Day - selective deleting From: GUEST,Allan Conn Date: 12 Nov 13 - 12:19 PM I can understand that someone may not want a thread turning into a slanging match but should that exclude any kind of reasoned debate at all? And if it should then why should there be selective deleting of posts only? I saw the post which stated...... "there was a disproportionate contribution (and sacrifice) from the Anzacs in WW1. as the Aussies and Kiwis went off to do their bit for King and Empire and the 'pride of the British race'" so I posted a reply asking who was the Anzac's sacrifice disproportionate to. As the post was only a thinly veiled swipe at the UK I wondered if the poster meant the Anzac's loss was disproportionate to the UK's. My perfectly polite and reasoned post was deleted. I sent a second post explaining why I'd posted and pointing out that all countries sacrificed a great deal but that the original post was based on a misconception. I asked if my post questioning that the Anzac sacrifice was disproportionate should be deleted then surely the original post should be deleted too. Again my second perfectly polite post was deleted. I find people having reasoned debate, even when some are putting forward points based on misconceptions, is a lot less worrying that this selective censoring. As to the facts the combined population of Australia and New Zealand in 1911 was approx 5.58 million whilst the UK at that time was 45.37 million. From the Australian Anzac Day website itself a figure of 274,111 is given for combined total Anzac casualties which amounts to 4.93% of the population. It gives the UK's as 2,535,424 people amounting to 5.58% of the population. As for actual deaths the combined Anzac total is around 80,220 or 1.44% of the population. The UK's (according to the 1922 figures given by War Office though some estimate it as higher) was 702,410 or about 1.548% of the population. The truth is all countries sacrificed a great deal and the Anzac sacrifice was virtually on a par with the UK's. Why should my posts be deleted for pointing this out whilst the original which almost suggests that the UK got off more lightly is left in situ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Armistice Day - selective deleting From: GUEST,Musket curious Date: 12 Nov 13 - 12:26 PM Possibly because moderators don't understand what we are talking about? Hollywood isn't a good history school and reckons the afters shift won the day. Sadly, some of deletions done in ignorance were far more insulting to the thrust of the thread than the words themselves.
Nothing is deleted except one person's copy of someone else's post. |