[Wikipedia-l] From Romanian Wikipedia, the Nazi Encyclopedia

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Apr 15 19:25:11 UTC 2007


Francis Tyers wrote:

>At least the other side of the issue isn't anti-Semitic. And another
>thing about the rise of the Nazis was the acceptance of other "points of
>view" that seemed reprehensible, because "everyone had a right to his or
>her opinion".
>
>Now, I don't particularly care if these people want to espouse Holocaust
>denial, anti-Semitism, crackpot conspiracy theories... but should we
>really be giving them server space for it? Would they not be better off
>with a geocities page somewhere?
>
I would rarely feel obliged to respond. ;-)

As much as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" may have been vicious 
nonsense, we cannot escape the facts that it was indeed published, and 
that many people were indeed influenced by its contents.  NPOV is not 
founded on suppressing material, but on putting that material into 
perspective.

Ec




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