I did not say nor did I mean that. What I meant is that I can understand how such a perspective can evolve and how such laws can be enacted and accepted in a community where such painful, traumatic events have occurred.
--ryan On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Lawrence Sica <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Ryan Waldon wrote: > > > The Holocaust didn't happen in the UK, did it? Note that the > > countries where denial is a crime, were essentially "ground-zero" > > for the Holocaust. I'd imagine that would give those governments > > (and citizens) a very different perspective on the issue. My > > perspective on David Dukes and KKK is similar, being that I'm both a > > "person of colour" and of Native American heritage (Lakota), a have > > relatives who meant their deaths at the end of KKK ropes or bullets... > > > > So does that mean that people who deny lynch mobs or slavery should be > arrested? No they should be ridiculed for their stupidity but not > thrown in jail. > > Laws which try and control what a person thinks are stupid and doomed > to fail in the end. You cannot legislate a person on how they should > think and what they should believe it just forces it underground where > it festers. > > --Larry > _______________________________________________ > OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] > http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters > List hosted at http://cat5.org/ >
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