[Wikipedia-l] The groundrules for a discussion with Helga

[Vicki Rosenzweig]

At 06:52 PM 9/3/02 +0100, Gareth Owen wrote:
>Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> writes:
>
> > Expressing and supporting a majoritarian point of view should still leave
> > room for alternative points of view, even when the majority considers them
> > quite goofy
>
>I'm sorry, but suggesting that World War II was started by a Jewish conspiracy
>is not "goofy".  It is deeply offensive to the memories of the victims of
>Naziism, and entirely at odds with the facts.

Indeed.

"Goofy" would be an assertion that Hitler's hatred was caused by flying 
saucer aliens,
who beamed those sick ideas into his head because they wanted to see how 
quickly
they could get humans to use atomic weapons.

>I, for one, will have nothing to do with any project that, implicitly or
>explicitly, grants credibility to such a viewpoint.  To do so would not be
>neutrality, but an abrogation of moral, intellectual and human responsibility
>to record and report accurately on those events.

-- 
Vicki Rosenzweig
vr at redbird.org
http://www.redbird.org