On May 23, 2006, at 12:07 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
Imagine if we had editors who belonged to the KKK and made it obvious they belonged to the KKK with the following pattern of behavior: making contributions about European history while making biased edits against pro-African or African-American political causes, along with a rigid obsession with mentioning in the lead paragraphs of [[OJ Simpson]], [[John Muhammed]], et. al. that these convicted or suspected murderers were black, and making posts to the listserv under the pseudonym of "David Duke". Now do you see the problem?
Sure. Their inability to follow NPOV is a problem, and if that's all they do, then they're of net harm to the project. Their membership of any particular ideological following is not itself the problem.
But wouldn't you say their espousing of these views creates a hostile environment towards the ethnic groups they're intolerant of?