On 5/23/06, Philip Welch <wikipedia(a)philwelch.net> wrote:
But wouldn't you say their espousing of these views creates a hostile
environment towards the ethnic groups they're intolerant of?
If that's the case, then they should be asked to stop it, and perhaps forced
to do so. But you're stretching if you want to suggest that the presence of
a white supremacist *by itself* creates a hostile environment for any black
editors.
The debacle caused by the admin who threatened to ban any user of {{user
pedophile}} demonstrated that banning for ideology or membership is not
practical or desirable. Incivil actions or undesirable edits, yes. But not
memberships or ideologies.
Steve