Guettarda wrote:
The difference here is not the content of the list, it's the medium in which it was posted. That Jay is Jewish is not some secret, he wasn't "outed" in the Stormfront post. But posting a list of Jewish Wikipedians on a neo-Nazi list by someone who was called Jews a "disease" which needs to be "eradicated" is comparable to posting the names of doctors performing abortion to lists calling for their assassination. In one case you are talking about informative lists, in the other you are talking about a hit list. I am baffled that anyone who has followed this discussion, either here or on Wikipedia, is still making these sorts of comparisons. If nothing else, please go back and read what Jimbo posted.
It is not entirely analogous, but the situation with Scientologists is not exactly innocuous either---some of the people posting lists "outing" Church of Scientology members are people who are outright hostile towards the CoS, calling it a "dangerous cult" and advocating the arrest of its advocates.
-Mark