Hi, Wikimedians. Michael Snow has persuaded me to return to Foundation-L, and his arguments have enough merit that I've decided to give the list another shot. I should add at the outset that I actually do take frivolous comparisons to Nazis or the Holocaust quite seriously -- I think joking about either subject tends to trivialize a very traumatic historical period, and I think we're better off remembering that period with a great deal of consideration and seriousness. I originally left this list because I felt that almost any response I might make to such a comparison was complicit in such trivialization, and I didn't want to be complicit. That said, I am of course willing to be myself the object of joking and abuse on this list, which is probably as it should be. --Mike _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Hi, Wikimedians. Michael Snow has persuaded me to return to Foundation-L, and his arguments have enough merit that I've decided to give the list another shot. I should add at the outset that I actually do take frivolous comparisons to Nazis or the Holocaust quite seriously -- I think joking about either subject tends to trivialize a very traumatic historical period, and I think we're better off remembering that period with a great deal of consideration and seriousness. I originally left this list because I felt that almost any response I might make to such a comparison was complicit in such trivialization, and I didn't want to be complicit. That said, I am of course willing to be myself the object of joking and abuse on this list, which is probably as it should be. --Mike