EdPoor writes about me:
Ironically, the very day the ban was announced he blithely pounded another nail into his coffin by insinuating a fellow contributor was a "Nazi"; I distinctly remembering using HTML strikeout codes to draw his attention to this error. I can't help someone who won't listen.
Ed, please cut it out. Stop attacking the victim and publicly befriending people who are Holocaust deniers, and who rely on the Neo-Nazi "JewWatch" wesbite. It is not a matter of opinion whether or not such attacks and arguments are anti-Semitic. Jew-baiting of Jayjg and others, by using "Zionist" as an ad homenin attack, is offensive, hateful and out of bounds. And was NOT just me who noted this. What about all the other people who also made similar accusations of racism against this person?
By repeatedly denying that the Holocaust occured, and by using Neo-Nazi tactics from Neo-Nazi websites, HistoryBuffEr has made it clear that he agrees with the Nazi position on this issue. That is NOT an ad homein attack; it is a clear and factual description of his own statements and belief systems.
Responsible members of the Wikipedia community have always been obligated to point out that such behaviour is unacceptable. Has something changed on this point? Jew-baiting always used to be a violation of Wikipedia rules. Similarly, attacks on black people, and vandalizing an entry to claim that black people were never taken as slaves is obviously a gross lie with racist intentions. Bald-faced attacks on Jews as "Zionists" in a perjorative sense, against blacks as "niggers", and against homosexuals as "faggots" is simply wrong.
We cannot let Wikipedia turn into a forum for hatespeech. If homosexuals are driven away by people who call them faggots, if Jews are driven away by people who call them "Arab murdering Zionists", if black people are driven away by people calling them "niggers",who will be left?
Why do those who make the most outrageous hateful attacks become valued members of the community, and why do those who ask for decency become ostracised? That is not a rational position.
More to the point, MANY of us on Wikipedia have been working against HistoryBuffEr and his sockpuppet, Alberuni. It was NOT just me who has taken offense to his repeated ad homenin racist attacks. Your claims to the contrary are factually incorrect. In fact, HistoryBuffEr (aka Alberuni) has a long history of slandering other people in this racist fashion, AND MANY OTHER WIKIPEDIANS have made the same complaint. (Hence the proceedings against him.)
Unless you want to ban all of them, you may want to retract your claims against me.
For issues of such magnitude, please get your facts straight.
Robert (RK)
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