Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1705775-20171004233226/@comment-1705775-20171005004047

BeholderofStuff wrote: Is Haman allowed back on? Just out of curiosity.

if they are portrayed as evil / malicious within official texts, yes.. even if historical, we have "fictionalized" for a reason (and yes, ficitionalized doesn't mean "this character never existed" - it means this is what a particular culture's take on said character is.. for example the Pharoah in Moses is valid under "fictionalized" not because we're saying Moses never happened but because that's how events are said to happen according to the texts.

in the case of Haman it isn't even a problem as he is now a symbolism of antisemitism itself, he's even described as such on wikipedia (which is much more strict on neutrality than wikias are).