Is that particular extremist clique alone in viewing other people as sub-human? Being particularly sensitive to one form of bigotry is a bit out of spirit with NPOV. El C's statement seems to be an accurate characterization of a particular view, but what principled basis for preemptive action can you make based on how one "sees" another? How does one distinguish in principle or practice those particular extremists from the those who might disparage "camelniggers," "ragheads," "gooks," "chinks," etc. though little trace of such views may be evident in their editing? Even if such is evident in their writing, making a special case of one user simply makes them special --which they are not.
Certainly someone who imposes her own informal interpretaion policy should be a bit more clear on the subject. I respectfully urge you to remove the ban and allow the normal policy path to take its course. Either the user crosses the line or he doesnt. Even with the tacit sanction or indifference to your block, your act is a needless circumvention of the formal process of dispute resolution which came to be long before you got here, and brought about in no small part through problems with the formentioned type of unilateralism.
SV
--- slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/24/05, steve v vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
Bombing people on claims of racial rationale is no less evil than bombing them on the basis of
claimed
ideological rationale, or on claims to divine
purpose.
El C summed up the reason trying to engage extreme racists and anti-Semities in dialogue on Wikipedia is probably pointless, and why they perhaps differ in kind from other types of extremists. This from the mailing list, Feb 24:
"When one editor sees another not as human but as sub-human, intrinsically and irreversibly, such a dialogue, though it might find formal expression, is a caricature by any stretch."
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-February/020314.html
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