On 11/30/06, Jim Schuler <jim62sch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
"Fear and ignorance"? Seriously, let's tone down the rhetoric here,
please. How is saying that Wikipedia has no obligation to be a Nazi
soapbox motivated by "fear and ignorance"? How is saying that
Wikipedia should have rules of conduct that dictate that certain
behaviors are outrageous, rules of conduct which are entirely similar
to rules used in many, many other private spheres, motivated by "fear
and ignorance"?
Some day I'll remember not to post philosophical points here. I simply
don't have the time to explain how fear and ignorance are the catalyst
for censorship.
Also, the inferrences you draw are not supported by what I wrote.
Finally, Wiki has no obligation to be a soapbox for anything, not just those
things people find offensive.