Oliver reported: The offending quote was, "What? Chinese people aren't allowed to contribute to the english wiki?" It was RK who characterised this as racism, saying, "Susan Mason effectively called me a racist".
Susan's statement was of course badly worded, but I don't see it as an accusation of racism, myself: it's about what writing systems one uses, not about what race one belongs to. And please let's not argue about whether or not one *could* interpret as racist. My point is that Susan didn't use the word "racist"...
Fine work, Oliver. As if there was any doubt. I think the unsubstantiated accusation of racism merits banning. At least temporarily. Robert is one of those... and we know what I mean by that. Its really not my idea of a good time to get into twenty little edit wars about this or that. And RK's reactionist tendencies are more than annoying, disruptive and non-cooperative.. they are insulting, and violating, and if a version of him from any other cultural persuasion, came along, and he ran into himself, their personalities would clash in an instant, and the basis of it would be perspective and nothing more. Its the spirit of NPOV, in a nutshell that Robert has yet to take to heart... and I hate to single anyone out like this, because stubborness in people - an unwillingness to concede even a point, is hard to communicate with.
Susan may be a bit loopy, but she's starting to mellow out, it seems. Shes talking things over more. Making alliances and giving greater consideration... but its RK who's still an ominous presence, though he has shelter of others... who have deemed his contributions valuable. I dont dispute the man's contributions as 'valuable,' I dispute them as being 'contributions' - in the spirit of contributing. It's amazing to me that the community has allowed his standardized, accusatory rampages (not worth repeating) to persist, whilst he can voice complaints of Susan's, mine and others, "accusations." If the accusation alone is the offense... let us not be inconsistent with regards to whom we speak of. Give me Wikilove or give me death... -Esteban