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Parent Article: Small Town Of Wilmington, IL Stands Tall Against Hate |
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Re: Small Town Of Wilmington, IL Stands Tall Against Hate |
by Brian
bhagy (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
24 Jun 2003
Modified: 25 Jun 2003 |
j m,
views like this CAN grip a town. that's the scary thing about hate speech, it's ignites fear. look at how well Mr. Bush was able to convince an entire nation that Iraq was a serious and imminent threat, just by using fear and hate speech. Without standing up against such voices and providing alternative voices so that people can see the differences between them (and hopefully make then informed judgements), then ignoring the hate speech only allows for it to go unchecked and become popular (even if to you and my ears it's untolerable).
Remember Hitler? He used hate and fear too, and it got him far. people thought if they ignored him, then other people would be able to see for themselves that his words were bunk. obviously, that didn't happen quite that way. so, to let it happen again, without raising voices in opposition is, in my eyes, to ignore lessons we should already have learned and need not repeat.
Besides, Matt Hale's group still was there, and their message was still present. It just had to contend with noise which hopefully allowed for suffiencent distortion that the message wasn't able to be understood without having to think about it. |
