FWD: Racist Newsgroup Proposal Alert !

[br...@lee.house.gov]

sma...@smith.smith.edu (Simone Masson) writes:
: Keith Wong wrote:
: >
: >
: If you think that newsgroup will not hurt, then I have enough reason to
: > believe that you are a fog living in a well -- you do not know what is
: > happening in the outside world. Just read any newspaper or news
: > magazine, you can find there are more and more people who advocate white
: > power.
: >
: > Keith.
:
: I agree. Although I believe in the need to protect free speech rights, I
: wonder why free speech is considered essentially more important than the
: fight against racism, both racist speech and racist violence. If we
: spent half of the time that we spend worrying about the free speech
: rights of racists and nazis, actually fighting racism, maybe we'd be
: getting somewhere.
: simone.

Freedom from racism is like freedom from evil. It'll never happen. Why, you can
still fight it though. Yet, not through censorship. One group of people should
never be able to prevent another from saying something.

- B David (bb...@hr.house.gov)