Apparently you are so intent on seeing me as a gutter dweller for daring to disagree with you that you can't see an obvious joke for what it was. No need for your implied threats, though I find it ironic that you'd make them in the same post while you claim you find it "utterly wrong to bar people from Wikipedia because of what views they hold."
This entire discussion (and the rest of these comments are about this thread in general and not your post in particular) has long passed the point of usefulness so I'm going to try to limit my participation in it unless someone refers to me as pathological again. Apparently many of you find the profession of hatred of Nazis offensive; what I find offensive is that so many of you are willing to make other editors deal with these Nazis in the name of your principles. Terms like "rights" and "day in court" are inapplicable. This is not a court and not a democracy and not a free speech forum. In those areas, Nazis should have the rights of anyone else. This is an encyclopedia. You're here to make this an accurate, NPOV encyclopedia, or you're in the way. We just have to decide how much crap you want other people to put up with before we decide these people have wasted enough of our time.
Gamaliel
Matt R matt_crypto at yahoo.co.uk:
You should be aware that you're beginning to sound an awful lot like the very people you oppose. Do not make any more comments of this nature in this forum. We certainly wouldn't allow neo-Nazis to post such comments (mutatis mutandis).
I believe it is utterly wrong to bar people from Wikipedia because of what views they hold, regardless of how unpopular or repellent those views are. Moreover, I think it would hinder us in our goal of building a complete and NPOV encyclopedia to do so.
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--- Rob gamaliel8@yahoo.com wrote:
Apparently you are so intent on seeing me as a gutter dweller for daring to disagree with you that you can't see an obvious joke for what it was.
I certainly found your statements offensive, and it's not clear that they were a joke at all. They look very much like hate speech to me: "nasty form of human virus"?
No need for your implied threats, though I find it ironic that you'd make them in the same post while you claim you find it "utterly wrong to bar people from Wikipedia because of what views they hold."
There's a difference between holding a view, and expressing that view in an offensive or hateful way. If a neo-Nazi wrote similar statements to yours in this forum, I would oppose that too. But until he did, I would be happy to tolerate him. Do you see the difference?
-- Matt
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