On 10 Nov 2007 at 11:47:57 +0000, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
You can leave it as whatever you like, I have no regrets about being mightily pissed off with Jon Awbrey's disruption (or Barber's or Bagley's) and having absolutely no patience whatsoever with anybody expressing support for banned abusers. Time for people to decide where their loyalties lie. Mine lie with Wikipedia, not with banned abusers of Wikipedia.
Ah, the classic "us vs. them", "if you're not with us you're with the terrorists" ploy. It plays well to a group of insecure patriots to rally them into suppressing dissent, but is not particularly appropriate for a community that's supposed to be open to participation from a diverse global community, and is supposed to be fighting against its various systemic biases rather than encouraging them.