At 06:26 PM 1/28/2005 -0800, Robert Brookes wrote:
--- Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
At 08:38 AM 1/28/2005 -0800, Robert Brookes wrote:
Was there a comparison?
No!
The holocaust started with the first brick thrown through the window of a Jewish owned shop ... or
with
the first racist taunt. We have people here now exhibiting the same intolerance and actions of the brown shirts then
Your denial of comparing Wikipedia to the Holocaust was immediately followed by a comparison of Wikipedia to the Holocaust. This is not helping your argument any.
A comprehension problem perhaps?
No. You're comparing the actions of people "here now" (ie, Wikipedians on Wikipedia) to the actions of brownshirts throwing bricks through windows of Jewish-owned shops (which you yourself state was a component of the Holocaust). It's right there.
Let this reply by Skyring help you;
"You used the phrase "Gestapo-like" to illustrate heavy-handed admins. That was entirely appropiate.
But this is exactly what I was disagreeing with; the comparison of the Gestapo to heavy-handed admins is emphatically not appropriate. Maybe when the heavy-handed admins are rounding up editors and killing them en masse you might have basis for it, but right now it's _just a website_. If an admin goes mad with power and bans you, it just means you've got some spare time in your day to browse webcomics or whatever. Get some perspective.