On 06/06/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On 5 Jun 2006 at 13:53, "Selina ." wikipediareview@gmail.com wrote:
Racism is illegal and as well as the editor puts Wikipedia in a bad position. If people can't put bigotry aside and instead try to force articles into their personal view of the world, it's right to ban them.
How is racism illegal? Racism is a belief system, and unless you have a regime that prosecutes thought-crimes, it can't be made illegal. Certain forms of speech or action that are racially- related, and perhaps motivated by racism, are illegal in certain places, though the free-speech protections of some countries' constitutions place sharp limits on the criminalization of pure speech without action in those places, including the United States.
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Maybe you don't have laws against it with your happy little "patriotic" organisations like the KKK, but in civilised countries like the UK and Germany (for just two examples) racism/hate speech is illegal. Get used it it, the US is simply backwards in most social issues compared to the rest of the world (another example could be the prudishly religious aspects that's not so far off from the Puritans)