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| City: | Ottawa  | | Personal Data: | Male, born: January 09 1954 | | Membership | 19years 114days ago. | | Last Login | 17years 22days ago. | | Last Move | 17years 143days ago. | SteveMartin is currently  | Send a mail to SteveMartin |
| Message header | Area/Game: | General | | Topic: | General | | Subject: | Re: on boardgames, politics, and tolerating the intolerants | | Posted by: | SteveMartin  - 18years 318days ago. |
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| Message text TXWard, I am not sure if you are trying to cloud the issue, or if you just genuinely don't understand what was going on. Player Hester created an account that was designed to be inflammatory to a large number of people. He then proceeded to post abusive messages in bad German in game chat. He followed that up with abusive messages in bad German in the forum. The next step was abusive messages in bad German in the personal e-mail of a number of other players who had an issue with the previous behaviours.
Now, if I have this straight, you are defending this player's right to make a nuissance of himself on the grounds that he has a right to his own political opinion, or that he may be trying to put forward some sort of historical treatise.
Here in Canada, we do not object to anyone doing historical research or even offering differing opinions on accepted knowledge. A discussion of the relative merits of fascism or Nazism will not get you censored here and probably will not even raise the collective eyebrows of the general public. Goose stepping down the main street, dressed as a Storm Trooper and carrying a swastika banner is likely to get you fined however. Calling people dirty swine and wishing them death is very likely to land you in a jail cell.
I object to Nazis on principal. In my opinion they represented the very worst qualities in man.
They had to be destroyed at a terrible cost to the world and I can think of no good reason to encourage the propagation of Nazi myths.
The same arguments you use to defend this player could be used to defend the demented individuals who deliberately crashed loaded airliners into the Twin Towers in 2001. They simply had an opinion that was different to yours and they were expressing themselves in the only way they felt they could. Perhaps you are right and we should have ignored them too, maybe they would have just gone away.
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