Re: personal invective NPC

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anthonyr wrote:


> You mention the ACLU's support of the KKK. Good example, but BAD
> example, too. See, I would LOVE to see them all HUNG from the same trees
> they used to hang blacks from! En masse. All at once, kill them all! No
> trial, no defense, no mercy. How can I free myself from this urge???? Or
> should I free myself of this urge? Can I have this urge and still
> believe in free speech? My emotional response to this is that if the KKK
> have the right to free speech, then free speech isn't what it's cracked
> up to be. 

Yeah, I agree with the emotional impulse..but..well, the KKK are the
unpopular minority now.  By the same logic you use, the white bigot
majority in the 60s should have been able to silence the then-minority
group of people who believed that we are all equal.  If that had
happened, those groups would never have been able to flourish... So,
you've got to let everybody speak, and hope that the sensible thought
predominates in the end. Also, most of the worse oppressors were people
who silenced their opponents ... hitle, mao...that should give you some
idea of what happens when speech is silenced...

I think the best weapon against the KKK is letting the KKK speak out in
the open. How many rational people would buy their argument when they
see those silly idiots dressed in hoods and capes like wayward children.
I think most people make good decisions when they are presented with
full accurate information.  They make bad decisions when they only have
half the story...