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MadRabbit -> RE: Is it a hate crime? Part II. (10/30/2008 7:31:22 AM)
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol It's not the first time I notice that a few posters seem to have a major hangup because they feel that being white gives them a harder time in our society (which is seriously weird, perverse and twisted to me, but perhaps it's a cultural thing).
I would call it mostly be annoyed by hypocrites who claim to be so "racially enlightened" but have blinders on to the fact that they really want a society that favors the races that they perceive as being "oppressed" and oppresses the races they perceive to be "not oppressed"
Those who battle with monsters should take care that they do not become monsters...
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It's strange that the very people who are usually not on the receiving end of racial 'humour' and expressions of racial hatred should cry in favour of retaining them as a shining example of freedom of expression in this society. It's also strange to me how deaf they are to reason.
Deaf they are to reason....right.
Like the reason of censoring and limiting freedom expression because the pro-Obama thought police personally dislike what someone has to say.
That's almost as bad as the right wing nut jobs who want to thought police anyone who has anything bad to say about America and our government.
I wish more people were deaf to the idea of creating a society where we can't say things our people find offensive and can't protest if our protest isn't the "politically correct" one.
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Meanwhile, an Ohio asswipe named Mike Lunsford hangs another effigy of Barrack Obama with the explanation that he doesn't want a black president (I am editing the more flowery language). The video of his exploits has been taken out of You Tube.
I think it's awesome that you have the ability to call that man an asswipe, kitten. I, for one, don't want to take it away.
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All this makes me think that this talk of free speech serves as an excuse to express the most violent and dangerous ideologies available to man.
Which violent and dangerous ideologies?
How about speech that cites people to revolt against their government? That, in my eyes, qualifies as violent and dangerous. Perhaps we should restrict that, because we don't like it.
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I do wonder why people tolerate the intolerable.
It's not about tolerating what people have to say. It's about tolerating their ability to say it. Then using our freedom of speech to object to it and oppose it in the act of not tolerating it.
We can't tolerate or not tolerate anything if it's censored and unable to be said.
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I am not at all convinced that encouraging public racist discourse is in any way good for our society, but I have faith society is changing towards the better despite of this, and certainly because of it - after all, this election has brought a wind of hope to millions of people, and not just in America either.
It's not good for society.
But a society where people don't have the right to speak their mind because other people don't like it and find it offensive is far far worse.
If that's the society you advocate as a Pro-Obama supporter, then I am one step closer to casting my vote for McCain.
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