Please do not misrepresent the history of this article User DianaW If what you said were true I would have to have been the person who originally wrote the section on Gordimer s being robbed and beaten by three black men As anyone can easily ascertain by studying this article s history and as you well know I was only the last of several editors to write maintain or modify that section without removing it The others who worked on it who outnumbered you and your confederates either didn t feel like wasting their time on a flame war with your group or were unaware of your vandalous campaign So much for your mythic statement about community opinion The term for the rhetorical dodge in which one claims popular support for an opinion is bandwagoning There is probably a separate term for the parallel strategy of portraying dissenters as lone cranks but I don t know it offhand By the way when I thought about the actual event as opposed to your group s flame war against anyone seeking to report it the notion that the incident had no racial significance became ever more ludicrous First because you would never have denied the racial significance of a white on black attack and secondly because I have no doubt that the attackers expressly targeted Gordimer because of her race As anyone who follows life in South Africa knows such daily race based attacks and official indifference towards them are a part of the institutionalized fabric of that nation s life People who oppose racism seek to publicize such systemic racial violence Unfortunately there are quite a few folks at Wikipedia who seek to suppress all knowledge of black racial violence