Originally Posted by
Zyklop
Something like this?
This is not in the Skadi database, thus it has not been said on Skadi. As it also does not touch rule #19, it is completely irrelevant.
I commented on the issue in the German section but I shall do so here again briefly:
1. Skadi is a forum for Europeans, not only for Germans.
2. Skadi is open to all nationalist and racially conscious views in the widest sense of the words, not only to orthodox National-Socialists.
3. Opinions subjectively considered anti-German do not enjoy a higher or lower degree of protection than views considered anti-Russian, anti-Serb, anti-Croat, anti-Italian, anti-Greek, anti-Swedish, anti-Polish, anti-Ukrainian, anti-Irish, anti-English, anti-American, anti-Med, or anti-Nord, all of which can be held and have been held here in the past within the framework of our rules.
4. To allow to discipline members or to stiffle their opinions on the ground that some of their fellow co-members consider them offensive, or opposed to certain ethnicities or ideologies, or codswallop, or counter-productive to a certain Gemeinschaft feeling based on some undefined interest, will lead onto a slippery slope, on which the encroachment on expressions central to Skadi's core values of European Racial, Spiritual and Cultural Preservation is permitted. To guard against this result, the protection of all rule-abiding communications not explicitly opposed to these values will be necessary in order to assure that unpopular expressions compatible with them are never unjustifiably limited.
5. Albeit it can be argued that Ross (and The Blond Beast for that matter) consciously and premeditatedly dance in the grey zone of the rules with the intent to provoke (and to get a laugh at the reactions), this is plainly irrelevant, as we cannot and do not judge intent and motives. We judge rule violations. People get disciplined for rule violations -- like Ross, Loki, and Northern Paladin got only yesterday. If people don't violate the rules, then they don't. It is infinitely more likely for a person to be put under moderation for a personal insult against a member than for having a skull bone of a certain politician in his signature -- or for calling him a "tramp."
Needless to say, Ross and The Blond Beast, in general, provide perspectives that are valuable to this community, alone because of their ethnic background -- perspectives which otherwise would remain largely unheard. It's not that we would have dozens of contributing Russian nationalists here. Even if everything they say should be false, erroneous, or fallacious, it will still serve a fair purpose. In the words of Mill:
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
6. I do not believe most people come to Skadi to feel at home in a NS Gemeinschaft. There are NS forums for this purpose, such as this one. While National-Socialists are as much welcome on Skadi, as every other nationalist or racially conscious person, they shall not enjoy any special protection here. I believe most people come to Skadi Forum because people can hold their nationalist or racially conscious positions -- whatever they may be -- in a civil and intelligent atmosphere beyond unreasonable ideological constraints; and, consequently, they find very interesting perspectives and information here.
That makes Skadi quite different from other forums, and this policy is not subject to change.
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