On 11/30/06, Rob gamaliel8@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/30/06, Jim Schuler jim62sch@gmail.com wrote:
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.
"Fear and ignorance"? Seriously, let's tone down the rhetoric here, please. How is saying that Wikipedia has no obligation to be a Nazi soapbox motivated by "fear and ignorance"? How is saying that Wikipedia should have rules of conduct that dictate that certain behaviors are outrageous, rules of conduct which are entirely similar to rules used in many, many other private spheres, motivated by "fear and ignorance"?
Some day I'll remember not to post philosophical points here. I simply don't have the time to explain how fear and ignorance are the catalyst for censorship.
Also, the inferrences you draw are not supported by what I wrote.
Finally, Wiki has no obligation to be a soapbox for anything, not just those things people find offensive.