Originally Posted by
SteveL
Here inthe UK we pride ourselves on democracy. But democracy means that a person or a group or people who are advocating at the top of their lungs what you would spend your life to deny, to fight even has the right to speak their mind.
To deny this, means we become the thing we fear - a group of people who want to deny another group equal rights based on not liking them. In a perverse way, we become the racists.
BNP like so many other groups hate. Their hatred is based on skin colour, religion, ethnicity and a group of other things. There will always be people who thrive on fear, on hatred and these people will always point a finger at a minority group and shout its all their fault. Protestants hate Catholics in Ireland and vis versa. Muslims hate Christians. Whites hate everyone else. As Chris Rock the comedian put it .........."Niggers and Jews is next, that train is never late".
What's the answer? For me the answer is to understand and everyone is capable of good and evil, right and wrong, fear and violence. But in 99.9% of us, we keep it in check. It's the 0.01% that cause trouble and they cause a lot of it. So lets not give these people a platform beyond what is reasonable.
