My gut says "ban all Nazis" - as the grandson of a Nazi, as someone whose relatives died fighting for a cause they believed in, I find it especially abhorrent. Jack is right, we can't ban people for their beliefs. At the same time, Linder's posts about Jay and other Wikipedia editors are pretty close to threats, and I think that off-project threats based on Wikipedia activities should be taken just as seriously as on-project threats. IMO, if you see Linder's comments as menacing or as threatening, then he should be banned - but not for his "white nationalist" views, but for implied threats.
Ian (Guettarda)
On 8/25/05, Jack Lynch jack.i.lynch@gmail.com wrote:
and they probably think you are a sub-human. So, the neutral thing to do is either a) ban you both, or b) ban nobody based on their POV, politics, or race. This IAR "I'll ban who I want to" stuff is untenable, however.
Jack (Sam Spade)
On 8/25/05, Phroziac phroziac@gmail.com wrote:
I happen to feel nazis are subhumans themselves.
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