User talk:OvenTreatedJew

Your username
I am wondering about the appropriateness of your username. I have visited Auschwitz and am disturbed by your usename. What is your explanation? -- Fyslee (talk) 06:28, 23 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Your username can be viewed as offensive. I think it is inappropriate and I've blocked your account as a result.  I suggest you register under a different user name if you would like to participate here.  Thanks very much -- Samir 06:33, 23 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I am actually a Jewish male out of Philly, PA. This is not a reference to the holocaust as you assume, and when you assume things you know what that means, it makes and ass out of u and me. No allow me back on.OvenTreatedJew (talk) 23:46, 23 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Your name is offensive. Find a new one.   Orange Marlin  Talk• Contributions 04:34, 24 February 2009 (UTC)


 * You may be a Jewish male, but creating that username and then just two minutes later making a comment to a Jewish editor in good standing looked like racial baiting. It's happened here often enough that I proceeded to ask you for an explanation. If I have erred, I have erred on the side against antisemitism. Just get a new username and you'll avoid this problem, since I'm not the only one who raised their eyebrows in consternation. I myself am not Jewish, but I abhor intolerance, whether it be racial, religious, or otherwise, and my sense of indignation over injustice, especially man's inhumanity to man, is pretty strong. My visit to Auschwitz occurred in 1988 on a trip to Bielsko-Biała southern Poland. We were a choir from Denmark participating in a choir weekend with many other choirs. We also visited Auschwitz and Cracow. The choir usually was pretty noisy and had lots of fun whenever we made such trips on a bus. The visit to the prison camp was sobering and I have never experienced such a quiet tour as after the visit there. We had alot to think about, and I wish everyone could visit that awful place and learn a lesson. It is preserved as a memorial and reminder. That's part of what is needed to prevent such awful atrocities from happening again. The next thing is to change the very nature of mankind, but that's not going to change by any kind of human effort. Civilisation only helps us to keep our darker sides in check. A promotion of the mutual tolerance, understanding, liberty, democracy, and freedom for all expressed by the American founding fathers is another step in the right direction. I have a little collection of quotes on my userpage. -- Fyslee (talk) 07:59, 24 February 2009 (UTC)