sean@epoptic.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:04:35PM +0100, Selina . wrote:
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)
That some countries punish thoughtcrime is not surprising. That some people are proud of the fact that their countries don't pass laws forbidding people to think particular thoughts is not surprising either.
The discussion is not about thoughtcrimes. It is about hate *speech* which is a different matter. The U.S. is actually violating an UN resoltion by not passing hate speech laws.
See: http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm#art20