You seem to be missing the point. I don't have to like or applaud something to support it's right to exist. You can mock something and not be trying to disenfranchise it.
On 7/25/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/26/07, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Oh yes, I'm sure faux-intellectual white supremacists and Christian fundamentalists absolutely need to be heard through their own "encyclopedia". It's not like they would disavow the rights of others to speak freely.
Umm. I am sure you aren't pre-judging any of these folks... (ever wonder what the root for the word "prejudice" stems from?)
Oh wait, yeah they would.
Be careful with that brush. Painting everybody with a broad one will get more folks messed up in paint than you ever would want.
While obviously freedom of speech is meaningless unless you defend the rights of every nut job and hate monger to have his say, I certainly
don't
have to condone what they are saying or support their project. Just
because
I wouldn't forbid them from saying what they please doesn't mean I have
to
advocate that they do so. The less heard from these crackpots the
better.
Well, I wouldn't want to characterise the preceding text as hatemongering, but I have a hard time seeing it as love-fostering or conciliation-directed either. But I have no objection to you using this mailing list to express your feelings, hostile, gregarious or otherwise.
-- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
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