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[edit] "Contemporary Nazism in Iran"

There is a vandal who keeps anonymously editing this page to fit their agenda. Hashshashin 16:14, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Edited article to better prevent Godwin's Law from taking over Kendrick7 18:57, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please add a link to mobbing.ca

Persecution is persistent mistreatment of an individual or group by another group.

This is the very definition of mobbing. Mobbing is a form of persecution which takes place in the workplace. You can find more information at http://mobbing.ca There is also a feature article called "Mobbing: A Familiar Pattern" (http://members.shaw.ca/mobbing/mobbingCA/patterns-1.htm) which explains the correlation between the mobbing process and the process used to persecute the Jews (and others) in Nazi Germany.

For your convenience here is the link you can add to "External links":

Radyx 22:57, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but no. Mobbing is a form of bullying, which is sufficiently different, that including it in the main article here would be an error. Perhaps in the see also section, where it would be clear that it is a separate issue. Chrisco.oyle 23:16, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay thanks, I'll add it there. That makes sense. Radyx 17:00, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
I've removed the mobbing.ca link because it doesn't seem to be significant enough to warrant a mention in a general article on persecution. I'm not even sure if the word mobbing, as they use it, is a well-recognized term.KonradG 04:31, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] german:Nacheile

I removed the Interwiki Link to "Nacheile", because that's another thing, meaning something like "chasing a gangster by law enforcement". The korrekt Translation is "Verfolgung" but this term has a much broader meaning. Thematically matching german WP articles are "Christenverfolgung" or "Judenverfolgung" but these are much more specific. I don't think there is a german WP article or even a german word with the exact meaning of Persecution. Vice versa I removed the Interwiki Link to "Persecution" from the german article "Nacheile". Obviously some robot found that (wrong) link and made all even wronger :-) --84.58.57.49 00:33, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. How do you smack a bot? ... ;-) --217.186.137.143 (talk) 20:39, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A few things I'd like to bring up

Why is the section on German persecution so much bigger than the section on Jewish persecution? Maybe history can speak for itself, but I would think the Germans should be on the list of persecutors before they are even on this list.

I would expand the Jewish persecution section, except that I am relatively new and would feel better if someone more senior who has been on this website for a while did it. Seriously though, when you think the word persecution, what peoples do you think of first? The jews have suffered countless centuries of persecution at the hands of most of this planets races.Hebrewpridehebrewpower (talk) 11:17, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Additional food for thought: What about the persecution of cannabis users for political goals (Regan's just say no, the Hearst, DuPont lobbied motivations, see The emperor wears no clothes for additional info), or the persecution of civilian servicemen, sexual minorities and such? I would think there are more cannabis users in the world than Jews or such. --82.181.226.171 (talk) 18:20, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reverted to restore formatting

The previous edit (May 15) created serious formatting problems, with half the table of contents and article material bumped to below the references. I've reverted it to get rid of the formatting problems, but may in the process have reverted content that should have stayed. Steorra (talk) 02:26, 18 May 2008 (UTC)