Nat,
I do disagree with RK calling anyone he dislikes a Nazi, but that's a separate issue.
I have tried to stay silent for a week, but the threats and personal attacks just keep on coming.
Do you really believe this craziness about me? I did no such thing. I have made many hundreds of edits on over a hundreds of different Wikipedia articles. Just like everyone else here, I often have had disagreements with other people. So what? We don't go around attacking each other as Nazis. That is simply a fabrication.
Your problem is that you are taking a specific set of related incidents that happened here, and then incorrectly assume that I write the same thing about every person I disagree with. That's absolutely false, as well as insulting.
Do you have any idea of what the specific issue actually was? An anonymous Wiki-En contributor wrote a detailed analysis proving that Stevertigo was posting anti-Semitic material, and posting Holocaust denial. Every one of these edits was made in accord with either Nazi or Christian Identity ideology. Stevertigo was then supported by Martin Harper ("MyRedDice") who supported and encouraged all of these Jew-baiting edits. A number of other anonymous people dropped by to help Martin and Stevertigo as well. Many of the edit lines had Jew-baiting comments. (Which, fortunately, a few fellow Wikipedians recognized and commented on. I was not alone by a long shot in this phase of the process.)
Did you actually read this analysis?
However, when this issue was brought to the attention of the Wiki-En list, I was slandered, called a liar, and worst of all, many Wiki-En supporters wrote in support of Stevertigo and Martin Harper. Incredibly, no one was publicly willing to speak out against anti-Semitic propaganda and Holocaust denial. (A few people wrote me in private to support me, but they stated that they were afraid to post publicly here. I can now see why; they were right all along about this place.)
Look, when people write in support of Nazi propaganda (and there is no debate about the edits in question), then in those select cases we are forced to admit that they are, by definition, anti-Semitic. The same would be true of people who wrote in support of racist anti-black propaganda.
The Wiki-En list is currently ruled by an elite clique of political left-wingers who won't allow any un-PC writings about Arabs, gays, blacks, Asians, women or socialists. Yet this same clique is so anti-Zionist that they will support outright anti-Semitism and Christian identity or Nazi propaganda, just as a way to make the "enemy" look bad.
In recent weeks BL and Mr-Natural-Health have been trying to scare my off of Wikipedia by implying that they might be, or actually are, Nazis. This isn't a joke. This is violent hatespeech.
No one on Wikipedia would allow a group of contributors to drive away a black person by others posing as members of the Ku Klux Klan. Such a person would be banned immediately. Yet the only case when such hateful and violent actions are allowed here are when people say they are Nazis, and when they are targeting Jews.
When Wiki-En members are supportive of such actions, that (by definition) is anti-Semitism. If this doesn't bother someone, then this tells us how they really feel about Jews: That Jews are only allowed to contribute here if they follow a pro-Arab left-wing line. Otherwise, let the self-proclaimed Nazis drive them off.
On the other hand, if you do not support such harassment, then you are morally obligated to speak out, and to ask for these people to be banned. We should not allow sucvh violent hatespeech to drive people away. Editing encyclopedia articles should depend on facts, sources and historical considerations alone.
Robert (RK)
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