Short addendum to the last post.
Apr. 10th, 2003 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deliriumcrowI knew I forgot something.
I don't have a problem with them having their display in public. As Kat pointed out, there is the right for even the KKK to march, and the Nazis and whoever else decided they want to be seen, and for the rest of the country to be pissed about it and have counter demonstrations. It's just the way things are. If one person has the right to voice an opinion, so does everyone else, no matter how wrong you may think they are. It's that whole free exchange of ideas, I guess. So yeah. If they wanted to have big posters of dead people, then go for it. But don't call me a Nazi in the process. Don't accuse me of supporting genocide, because I don't. Your right to free speech ends at accusations like that, because it hinders the freedom of thought and debate. And it hurts people.
Also, there was a single soul there, sort of a third party person, promoting the nascent Campus Libertarian Party, and freedom of speech. He amused me, sitting there in a folding chair with sunglasses on and enjoying the spectacle.
And the reason not eating was a bad idea? I ended up having in the course of the day, a cookie and a bagel. Not really enough, if you ask me.
I don't have a problem with them having their display in public. As Kat pointed out, there is the right for even the KKK to march, and the Nazis and whoever else decided they want to be seen, and for the rest of the country to be pissed about it and have counter demonstrations. It's just the way things are. If one person has the right to voice an opinion, so does everyone else, no matter how wrong you may think they are. It's that whole free exchange of ideas, I guess. So yeah. If they wanted to have big posters of dead people, then go for it. But don't call me a Nazi in the process. Don't accuse me of supporting genocide, because I don't. Your right to free speech ends at accusations like that, because it hinders the freedom of thought and debate. And it hurts people.
Also, there was a single soul there, sort of a third party person, promoting the nascent Campus Libertarian Party, and freedom of speech. He amused me, sitting there in a folding chair with sunglasses on and enjoying the spectacle.
And the reason not eating was a bad idea? I ended up having in the course of the day, a cookie and a bagel. Not really enough, if you ask me.
