On 12/1/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Rob wrote:
This is an absurd comparison. Rational people
are completely capable
of distinguishing between normal partisan politics and a group which
advocates mass extermination.
And furthermore, and this is important in this particular example,
rational people are completely capable of distinguishing between someone
with sincerely held but deeply misguided beliefs or attitudes who is
sincerely trying to nevertheless work well with others to create a fair
encyclopedic set of articles on difficult topics, and someone who is
just slapping stuff on a userpage to try to yank people's chains.
This is not a case of censorship of the poor repressed Nazis. This is a
simple simple simple case of blocking a troll and moving on with life
without worrying about it.
--Jimbo
No disrespect, Jimmy, but I don't think anyone was defending Nazis. It
seems to me that some of us were attempting to hold a philosophical
discussion on a broader topic, not a topical conversation on the banning of
one person.