morbious_fod
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In America you CAN be a racist or not, you can hate or love who you want with out being put to death by the government for doing so.
Sad but true. I'd gladly knock off every last racist piece of crap I came across. With a smile on my face. I'd make a freakin holiday out of it. Even Albert Einstein said that racism and pejudice will be the downfall of mankind. I'm pretty sure he was no dummy.
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just a quick thought, why not remove the ones causing the problem and leave the rest? Punish the majority because of the minority gee sounds like congress!!
Like I said first. Most likely taking steps to prevent problems. But why remove the whole post? Because Admin or a moderator wanted to, that's why, period. No need to make a big fuss about it. If you want a forum that allows garbage just because "Hey, it's our first amendment right" then by all means create one, moderate one, and pay for one. Otherwise, reread the agreement we ALL agreed to when we joined and quit acting like dummies.
PS: Anyone else seen that movie Capitalism: A Love Story by Michael Moore? Great flick. Yep, I'm one of those bozos.
In this country we have a right to our opinions no matter how backward or idiotic they may seem to others. Anytime we seek to silence those who hold opinions that we don't happen to agree with or like then we become the monsters that we want to vanquish. If their opinions are full of hatred then that's fine, you can't punish someone for hating, if we could then we would all be locked up because we all have someone we hate. As Marilyn Manson said it best, "everyone is someone elses N-word", freak that he may be, he is right. Everyone hates someone, and everyone is hated, it's human nature. Thank the Maker that in this country we at least pay lip service to respecting the right for someone have an unpopular opinion. Unfortunately political correctness goons, who think they have the God given right to dictate what others say and think, have gained too much sway in this country. People have the right in a free society to be a bigoted racist moron, and I will fight and die for their right to do so; however, when they act violently upon that opinion that's when I will step in. You are not guaranteed the right to not be offended. If we don't stand up for the right for others to their opinions, no matter how wrong they may be, then we don't deserve the right to our own opinions. Freedom of Speech isn't there to protect accepted speech, it is there to protect controversial or un-accepted speech.
We can learn to tolerate each other; however, we can't stop people from being racist idiots on all sides. KKK, Nazis, Taliban, Communists, Political Correctness, history is replete with morons who only want one thing, and that's to destroy or oppress that which they don't agree with or outright hate. Yet I don't think that the suppression of certain portions of our history, in order to appeal to the tastes of those who would much rather whitewash history instead of learn from it, is the logical way to approach those events, people, or actions, that keep seeping through the white wash as black splotches. Destroying or suppressing artifacts from those organizations or periods is doubly illogical, because if future generations aren't able to see the physical proof that these events existed, then they will tend to forget them and the lessons we learned from them, and history will repeat itself. Infamy attracts interest, that is why Confederate Battle Flags, Jolly Rogers, and Nazi flags are such great sellers, humans by are very nature are attracted to that which polite society deems too offensive or dangerous. The same goes for the artifacts from these groups as well.
If the post was getting out of hand then I agree with the actions of the administrators, this is their house after all and those who are allowed to come here must respect that fact.
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