On 11/30/06, Rob <gamaliel8(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/30/06, Jim Schuler <jim62sch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Debates about Naziism aside, either all political userboxes are allowed
or
none are, as every political party is considered
to be offensive by
someone. One point: we need to watch for mission (anti-user box) creep.
Yes, but the consensus is amongst the vast majority of non-Nazis that
they are offensive. There is no need for an all or nothing
requirement here.
That's utter nonsense. Would you delete a page and ban the user who has a
Communist userbox? Yes or no? Communists were responsible for far more
deaths than the Nazis (hell, Hitler was an amateur compared to Uncle Joe and
the Beloved Chairman Mao), and we (the Western nations) were allied with a
genocidal paranoid butcher during WWII in order to defeat another genocidal
paranoid butcher.
Picking and choosing what is "acceptable" is, to me, often an example of
fear and ignorance.