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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 24554217, member: 96746&quot;]I can&#039;t help wondering if some of the wording used on &#039;contentious&#039; listings is due to the use of censor bots on the various sites, or self-censorship based on the perceived likelihood of rejection. The last 20 or 30 years has seen a huge increase in the vociferous minority claiming outrage in the use of certain words across many topics, to the point where you have to disguise the product to get it posted. People have shouted and too many people have over-reacted in their accommodation of these views. I don&#039;t agree with everyone, and not everyone agrees with me. Live with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Governments have got involved too such as ebay&#039;s ban on Cuban coins. Why? They are as numismatically interesting to a collector as any other country. Collecting them doesn&#039;t make one a subversive. The person may be, but that&#039;s a different matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Listing items doesn&#039;t imply the person has sympathies towards any of the ideology represented by the item, whether far right, far left, or ways of life that were normal for the times. Slavery is a good example of this, but I don&#039;t hear anyone clamouring to trash the Parthenon or Colosseum, despite the fact that both civilisations were built using slaves. More worrisome would be an accompanying diatribe of marketing blurb glorifying the history behind them, or heaven forbid, a government putting the case for things most civilised people have rejected. You don&#039;t have to look far for that either.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s unreasonable on a planet populated by 8 billion people not to expect to find someone genuinely interested in any particular narrow specific field, and if that happens to be a dark period in history, so be it. It still doesn&#039;t make them an adherent to the ideology. People should be free to collect whatever takes their fancy, and freely trading said items is a part of that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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