[WikiEN-l] Nazi userboxes

[The Cunctator]

On 12/1/06, Jim Schuler <jim62sch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/1/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> >
> > Rob wrote:
> > > This is an absurd comparison.  Rational people are completely capable
> > > of distinguishing between normal partisan politics and a group which
> > > advocates mass extermination.
> >
> > And furthermore, and this is important in this particular example,
> > rational people are completely capable of distinguishing between someone
> > with sincerely held but deeply misguided beliefs or attitudes who is
> > sincerely trying to nevertheless work well with others to create a fair
> > encyclopedic set of articles on difficult topics, and someone who is
> > just slapping stuff on a userpage to try to yank people's chains.
> >
> > This is not a case of censorship of the poor repressed Nazis.  This is a
> > simple simple simple case of blocking a troll and moving on with life
> > without worrying about it.
> >
> > --Jimbo
>
>
> No disrespect, Jimmy, but I don't think anyone was defending Nazis.  It
> seems to me that some of us were attempting to hold a philosophical
> discussion on a broader topic, not a topical conversation on the banning
> of
> one person.


Funny, because it seemed like people setting up absurd strawmen and burning
them and talking about how evil and genocidal governments and organized
religions are, which seems astoundingly off topic for the Wikipedia mailing
list.

But I could be wrong.