Well, at least in theory, the concept of advocating for separatism is different to advocating for supremacy. We should be able to tell from their literature what they are actually doing. Mark
--- David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
Wikipedia is not a vehicle for political advocacy
and progaganda. (from
[[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not]]). His
statement, "We are not White
supremacists because we do not feel the need to
rule over other people of
different races, we simply want seperation because
we feel this is best for
our people.", whether true or not, basically says
it all. He is here editing
in order to advocate a political position and
engaging in disseminating
propaganda to that end.
Indeed. But we can put up with the Church of Scientology sending an editor for the same purpose; dealing with neo-Nazis, IME the hard part is *not* exploding their heads with unfair tactics like logic, history and joined-up thinking. One day I may be proven wrong ...
Jimmy Wales wrote:
One thing I discovered in my conversations with
Paul Vogel is that
they prefer to be called "white separatists". I
think we can safely
use that terminology as well, because it's more
accurate.
<POV> If they think that "white supremacist" is a
pejorative insult, whereas
"white separatist" is a delightful explanation of
their terribly
enlightened ideals, well, the joke is on them.
They still sound like
morons to me.
</POV>
The reason I ask for checkable references is that every neo-Nazi who comes through seems to want the articles with different euphemisms^Wterms for the same things and insist on their correctness. Saying "this group maintains" when it's really a case of "this editor insists" is not ideal IMO - a bit much of that made it into the articles in question in an effort to work with Vogel.
(I'm real big on references this month.)
- d.
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