RolfmaoAnyone else think the danish newspaper was a bit stupid to publish the pictures anyway? They have been over-reacted to but some reaction was going to be expected.
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Cocodaye Miasere likes chips and peas,
Fri 3 Feb 2006, 13:28,
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I lived in Scandinavia for 4 yearsthe majority of people are surprisingly right wing, so this doesn't surprise me at all.
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Damien's Hearse,
Fri 3 Feb 2006, 13:36,
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its a bit like allowing neo nazis to give speeches or to meet.We may think its damn stupid and fucking offencive, but well free speech and all. We can just ridicule their backward thinking.
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MrA,
Fri 3 Feb 2006, 13:41,
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I thinkeveryone is being manipulated into choosing a position. Eg I-am-offended-by-the-images, or I-am-outraged-that-you-threaten-my-freedom-of-speech...nice cartoon views for squaring up as big teams with homogenous identities. Makes me think of propaganda about the hun bayonetting babies at start of WWI (gets everyone nice and wound up, truth irrelevant, hello violence and conflict). Wow, humans eh, what a triumph of evolution.
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vladimir,
Fri 3 Feb 2006, 13:43,
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I am outragedthat you threaten my right to rip the fucking piss.
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Sat 4 Feb 2006, 10:03,
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Freedom of speechdoesn't mean you have to print/say anything that will offend a lot of people. It just means that you can if you really want to.
Like I wouldn't necessarily have to call Tony Blair a cunt to his face, even though I would because he is. I have the freedom to do so but won't necessarily use it.
Another important point is that the freedom of speech does not also give you the right to be listened to. The BNP are a racist bunch of twats. They have the right to say what they want but I also have the right to ignore the hell out of them because they are a racist bunch of twats.
(Like I wouldn't necessarily have to call Tony Blair a cunt to his face, even though I would because he is. I have the freedom to do so but won't necessarily use it.
Another important point is that the freedom of speech does not also give you the right to be listened to. The BNP are a racist bunch of twats. They have the right to say what they want but I also have the right to ignore the hell out of them because they are a racist bunch of twats.
Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango,
Fri 3 Feb 2006, 14:06,
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