On 11/30/06, Rob gamaliel8@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/30/06, Jim Schuler jim62sch@gmail.com wrote:
Debates about Naziism aside, either all political userboxes are allowed
or
none are, as every political party is considered to be offensive by someone. One point: we need to watch for mission (anti-user box) creep.
Yes, but the consensus is amongst the vast majority of non-Nazis that they are offensive. There is no need for an all or nothing requirement here.
That's utter nonsense. Would you delete a page and ban the user who has a Communist userbox? Yes or no? Communists were responsible for far more deaths than the Nazis (hell, Hitler was an amateur compared to Uncle Joe and the Beloved Chairman Mao), and we (the Western nations) were allied with a genocidal paranoid butcher during WWII in order to defeat another genocidal paranoid butcher.
Picking and choosing what is "acceptable" is, to me, often an example of fear and ignorance.