On May 22, 2006, at 8:54 PM, Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
The difference
with anti-Semites is that we have Jewish editors.
Your POV is showing...
How is that POV? Look, if you're on Wikipedia and you make it known
that you're an anti-Semite, doesn't that count as being pretty damned
uncivil to the Jews? The difference with communists, anarcho-
capitalists, furries, et. al. is that saying "I'm an anarcho-
capitalist" doesn't constitute an attack on anyone else. Saying (or
otherwise making clear) "I am an anti-Semite" is, by definition, the
same as saying, "I hate Jewish people". If you don't see that as
uncivil I don't know what you can see as uncivil.
If there were
people on Wikipedia who happened to be white
supremacists or Islamists and you had no way to tell they were either
of these things from their edits, that would be one thing. If you
make your anti-semitism known, however, I don't see why you should be
welcome on Wikipedia. The very act of accepting these types into the
community would be an insult.
The act of openly rejecting these types is just as big an insult.
Who's
next? Non-Americans?
I don't worry about insulting anti-Semites, thanks. Please stop using
up all the straw.
--
Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch