[WikiEN-l] Desysoping

Sun Feb 20 01:33:05 UTC 2005

Zoney wrote:

>There are views which are unacceptable in civilised society.
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And which, exactly, are those?  Which civilised society?  Is Wikipedia 
going to be on the business of deciding which views are acceptable and 
which aren't?

Neo-Nazis have a particular ideology, which happens to be extremely 
unpopular.  They are hardly the only ideology I personally find 
abhorrent; it's just the easiest to criticize.

What about any of the following:
-- Those who support attacks on Israeli civilians (e.g. terrorism) as a 
legitimate means of warfare.  There are several tens of million people 
int he world who hold this viewpoint; are they all to be banned on sight?
-- Those who support fascism as a political ideology, but do not support 
Nazism in particular.
-- Those who support Maoism, Stalinism, or other "left-totalitarian" 
ideologies.

If we're going to start banning certain ideologies on sight, someone 
needs to come up with criteria for how we decide which are unacceptable.

-Mark