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[J. Johnson]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, er-chan wrote:

> [....]
> JJ>   Before anyone gets carried away in the passions of the moment, lets have
> JJ> a reality check:  First, do we even have any links to "hate groups"?   
> JJ> 
>       Well do we link to hate groups?

        That's what _I_ asked!  Your proposal supposes such links, but
apparently you don't know of any.  
 
> JJ>   Second, what is the point in removing such links?
> 
>      They have websites to recruit more people to hate.  Some
>     people hate so much they act on their hatred to kill
>     innocent people at work, the more the better for
>     their twisted brain(?).  You want to help them recruit??

   Which misses the primary question here, of whether we have links to any
such sites.  

   Of greater concern is your ready and overly simplistic attribution of
all that has happened to "twisted brains".  To kill thousands is certainly
despicable.  But to so characterize the hatred of many millions of
people--and thereby implicitly dismiss any other explanation--is a grave
error.  It trivializes what has happened, and it precludes both the
possibility of underlying issues to address and any responsibility for
doing so.

  I think we need to _add_ links to diverse sites, and _especially_
sites we don't agree with.

=== JJ =============================================================


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