Christopher Mahan wrote:
Yes, and this is exactly why it's ok for Wheeler to express him/herself in this forum in the manner of his choosing.
It's not okay.
I did not mean "being destructive" by hurting other people's feelings and motivation. I meant it as deleting content or damaging content in wikipedia articles.
Hurting other people's feelings _is_ destructive. Its contributors are the most valuable part of Wikipedia, and hurting them is damaging to Wikipedia itself.
The reason why I say that hate speech is not destructive is that speech itself is strictly communicative.
I disagree. Speech can be used as a weapon, and in extreme cases even to kill someone. And a person saying things like, to use a drastic example, "in hitler's times you would have been sent to the gas chambers" should be banned in Wikipedia.
This mailing list has a long history of wrong accusations of anti-semitism, but that's no reason not to react on real ones.
elian