EXERCISING YOUR 1ST AMENDMENT

[HairOfTheDog]

I'm guilty of not respecting some of the opinions of others but I don't think I'd ever resort to trying to silence it, not with violence anyway.

I don't like that torch carrying bullshit at all and I believe the fur would fly if it were a group of black people marching with lit torches. Shiiiit.

I don't see you in a silencing light. You own a forum that attracts and encourages the exchange of different opinions. You don't have to respect all of them (I don't), but you don't try to silence them. In my opinion, that's what matters here at Mock, in university halls, in the media, and everywhere else.

White supremacists marching through town spewing racist and religious hate is not exactly the same as controversial political speakers booked at universities, to me. Supremacists get to demonstrate and protest if they do it legally. But, I think it's great that they're often so outnumbered by people coming out to protest that bullshit that it effectively (sometimes) sends the supremacists packing. So long as the counter-protesters don't resort to violence or vandalism, it's all good.

And, I think you're absolutely right. If a group of American black, or Muslim, or Hispanic supremacists descended on a town bearing torches and spewing that bullshit they'd be called "terrorists", or "criminals", or "thugs" and possibly cut off by some of the same officials who defend the 1^st Amendment rights of whites under the same circumstances.