On 8/24/05, steve v <vertigosteve(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Bombing people on claims of racial rationale is no
less evil than bombing them on the basis of claimed
ideological rationale, or on claims to divine purpose.
El C summed up the reason trying to engage extreme racists and
anti-Semities in dialogue on Wikipedia is probably pointless, and why
they perhaps differ in kind from other types of extremists. This from
the mailing list, Feb 24:
"When one editor sees another not as human but as sub-human,
intrinsically and irreversibly, such a dialogue, though it might find
formal expression, is a caricature by any stretch."
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-February/020314.html
Sarah