Regardless of what the original agenda, many
eventually shape up, gain in literacy, feed their
curiosity about the world, grow in knowledge of
subjects of interest, make themselves useful, develop
some general perspective, and gain freedom from those
in their orbit who dwell in vexation.
Very well put! It's important to think of people as individuals, even if
they are part of fascist or racist movements. We have paedophiles
contributing in good faith as was recently pointed out. I'm sure we also
have nazis contributing in good faith and there's no reason to worry about
that. (All homeopaths should be banned immediately, though.)
And if you read the conversations on the Stormfront message boards that
have been linked to you'll see that User:Amalekite, who presents a well
reasoned case and is obviously familiar with the workings of Wikipedia,
does not manage to gather any new users for us. Other members of that
board are content with "telling the truth about the Jews" on their own
site.
This is consistent with my own attempts of recruiting new contributors.
It's harder than one might think.
Regards,
Haukur