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Bedser was chair of selectors from 1969. Insole chaired the '68-9 meeting. Fieldgoalunit ( talk) 23:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps I am alone on this one, but I find the following sentence disturbing and slightly weaselly;
He was a founding member of The Freedom Association, which supported the apartheid system in South Africa, and he was one of selectors when Basil D'Oliveira was left out of the England team for the 1968–69 tour of South Africa.
Through a chain of inferences, the sentence seeks to cast Bedser's shared decision to exclude Dolly from the England touring squad was racially based. Looking at the chain we see the following inferences
It seems clear to me that the contributor of this sentence means to link D'Oliveira's exclusion to Bedser's "support of apartheid". It may be true that Bedser was a supporter of apartheid and deliberately excluded Dolly on the basis of his colour but this chain of links is pretty thin support for such a claim, especially in what is supposed to be an encyclopaedia written from a neutral point of view. If the inference needs to be made, it needs to be attributed to someone, such as "XXXX linked Bedser's part in the exclusion of D'Oliveira from the 1968-69 England touring side to apartheid South Africa to his membership of The Freedom Association, a conservative grouping that, among other causes, opposed attempts to pressure South Africa to abandon its race-based discrimination." I am sure that others can improve on this. -- Mattinbgn\ talk 02:18, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
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Bedser was chair of selectors from 1969. Insole chaired the '68-9 meeting. Fieldgoalunit ( talk) 23:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps I am alone on this one, but I find the following sentence disturbing and slightly weaselly;
He was a founding member of The Freedom Association, which supported the apartheid system in South Africa, and he was one of selectors when Basil D'Oliveira was left out of the England team for the 1968–69 tour of South Africa.
Through a chain of inferences, the sentence seeks to cast Bedser's shared decision to exclude Dolly from the England touring squad was racially based. Looking at the chain we see the following inferences
It seems clear to me that the contributor of this sentence means to link D'Oliveira's exclusion to Bedser's "support of apartheid". It may be true that Bedser was a supporter of apartheid and deliberately excluded Dolly on the basis of his colour but this chain of links is pretty thin support for such a claim, especially in what is supposed to be an encyclopaedia written from a neutral point of view. If the inference needs to be made, it needs to be attributed to someone, such as "XXXX linked Bedser's part in the exclusion of D'Oliveira from the 1968-69 England touring side to apartheid South Africa to his membership of The Freedom Association, a conservative grouping that, among other causes, opposed attempts to pressure South Africa to abandon its race-based discrimination." I am sure that others can improve on this. -- Mattinbgn\ talk 02:18, 6 April 2010 (UTC)