Please do not misrepresent the history of this article UserDianaW If what you said were true I would have to have been the person who originally wrote the section on Gordimers being robbed and beaten by three black men As anyone can easily ascertain by studying this articles 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 didnt 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 dont know it offhand  By the way when I thought about the actual event as opposed to your groups 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 whiteonblack 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 racebased attacks and official indifference towards them are a part of the institutionalized fabric of that nations 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