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

[Phroziac]

Heh, and THEY are calling people subhuman.

On 8/25/05, Michael Turley <michael.turley at gmail.com> wrote:
> --- Rob <gamaliel8 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 8/25/05, Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth at hi.is> wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > - - - - -
> > 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
> > - - - - -
> >
> > Regards,
> > Haukur
> 
> Well said, Haukur.  Recognition of individuality, even in the face of
> extreme challenge, is the primary key to retaining the moral high
> ground over all Nazi and Nazi-like groups.
> 
> And further, if we adopt Nazi ideas and tactics*, in doing so, we also
> adopt their morals.
> 
> *(demonization of groups, pre-banning, and expelling them from our
> realm based on beliefs rather than behavior)
> 
> --
> Michael Turley
> User:Unfocused
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