[WikiEN-l] Re: A neo-Nazi wikipedia

[Haukur Þorgeirsson]

> Nazis should be banned not just because they are a
> particularly nasty form of human virus, but because
> they will inevitably interfere with our goals.

Nazis are individual human beings. A sentient person will not 'inevitably'
behave badly on Wikipedia because she belongs to a particular sect or
adheres to a particular ideology.

And please choose your metaphors with more care. The idea of a human virus
is familiar and somewhat unpleasant.

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The purpose of National Socialism, according to Hitler, was to "maintain the
life of Germany." He called Germany a "corporate body," a "single organism"
that consisted of the German people as cells of this organism. The Jewish
people also constituted cells of the national organism. These cells,
however, made no contribution to the life of Germany. Rather, as bacteria,
viruses and parasites, they lived and fed off the body politic, draining the
nation of its energy and capacity to exist.
...
On the evening of February 22, 1942, Hitler met with Himmler and a Danish SS
major and expounded his conviction that the "discovery of the Jewish virus"
was one of the "greatest revolutions that has taken place in the world." The
battle in which the Nazis were engaged, he said, was of the "same sort as
the battle waged, during the last century, by Pasteur and Koch." How many
diseases, he declared, have their origin in the Jewish virus! "We shall
regain our health only by eliminating the Jew." - http://tinyurl.com/cn5zg
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Regards,
Haukur