Kakki said: >I guess what I don't get is this "reading through the code" - it can be >proven beyond any doubt quite quickly what these groups are about, so why >would one have to read through their code to understand it any clearer? >All >I had to see at 13 was one photograph of a lynching and that about summed >it >up for me. The white hooded thing is also scary enough on it's own, too. >Maybe teaching methods were more simpler in my time. Sure, showing a picture might work for one group. But not all white supremisist and other evil groups label their stuff neatly: "These are the people who lynch people, remember that one photograph you saw when you were 13?" All kinds of groups have all kinds of literature. The kids need to be able to see through the crap along side the picture, so they'll associate that kind of retoric with evil next time they encounter it. Vince said: >Was it two years ago that the young man drove through Indiana and >Illinois and killed random Jews, people of Asian descent, and African >Americans - including by chance the former head coach of the Nothwestern >basketball team - thinking that was the mission of his white supremist >church, whose headquarters are in Illinois? That's the kid i was talking about. I think it might have been 3 years ago, actually. He went to my Junior High. He went to my High School. He was exposed to many Asian and Jewish kids (though admittedly very few African Americans.) He was my brother's year. He got all the same schooling I got. But something went wrong. >Censorship only makes things exciting and forbidden. Lay the stuff out, >say this is what it is, and this is why I am against what this is. Yeah, by censoring things off the internet, they only make them more applealing. Like sneaking out to see a boy you don't really like all that much, but are attracted to because your parents said you can't see him. >Censorship is not the answer, ongoing conversation is. Those >conversations must go on over the course of years and be backed up by >our lives. /me pats the list on the back for this. ;-) Emma. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
