by sand-werm on Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:16 pm
([msg=7871]see Re: Racist Website[/msg])
i believe that racism is wrong no matter what the case may be and i will do almost anything to condemn it and prevent its advancement. anything except to lower myself to their level. one of the things racists strive to do is to limit and/or destroy the freedoms of those that they hate. those freedoms including their freedom of speech/expression. i will not limit someones freedom of expression, no matter how vile that opinion may be, due to the fact that i would then be no better than them. i would even be categorizing them as racists, making assumptions about them, etc. i doubt that anyone would bother to read their website to see how racist they were and would instead just destroy it. it could be jokes making fun of every race, and one person labeled it as a racist website. it could also be something truly evil, but it is then still just an extremely vile opinion. also, these websites don't have much power in the first place. the people who gather there are already racists and likely aren't convincing anyone of how right they are. and if they do convince a few people, those few people shouldn't be on the internet anyways and likely believe everything they read on the internet and use AOL.