[WikiEN-l] To: Jimmy Wales - Admin-driven death of Wikipedia

Tue Jun 6 01:20:35 UTC 2006

On 5 Jun 2006 at 13:53, "Selina ." <wikipediareview at gmail.com> wrote:

> Racism is illegal and as well as the editor puts Wikipedia in a bad
> position. If people can't put bigotry aside and instead try to force
> articles into their personal view of the world, it's right to ban them.

How is racism illegal?  Racism is a belief system, and unless you 
have a regime that prosecutes thought-crimes, it can't be made 
illegal.  Certain forms of speech or action that are racially-
related, and perhaps motivated by racism, are illegal in certain 
places, though the free-speech protections of some countries' 
constitutions place sharp limits on the criminalization of pure 
speech without action in those places, including the United States.

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