How are people like this allowed to exist?

Question

First, I am all for freedom of speech, that's one thing. Anyone has the freedom to say and feel how they want. But these people applaud attacking other races and kicking everyone that is not white, blonde-haired and blue-eyed out of the US! Anyone else have a problem with this?

http://www.kkk.bz/

The other thing is, can they leave the Bible out of it? They're using the Bible as an excuse for their behavior. I've known plenty of Christians that are kind people and don't like their book waved around and used mislead people into be racist. Religion has nothing to do with is, but they're using it as a shield! How cowardly.

EDIT: Religion has nothing to do with *it*

Illusion--Very good point. My problem isn't with free speech (though I have a big thing against racists) but what they do with it. I've heard these people encourage others to attack black people! Speaking is one thing, doing is quite another.

Answer 1

Now lets look at the positive. Don't people like this highlight minorities, and allow the average guy like myself to examine their claims, which ultimately allows me to appreciate different cultures and races more.

Every culture has their bigots, albeit small as with the KKK, but hasn't it driven the minorities to achieve and succeed, which ultimately makes people like the KKK look like the fools they are.

This is a world wide problem, not just the good Ole USA.

Free speech must be maintained no matter how offensive, it actually enlightens in the long term. It helps us to recognise our own bigotry that we all possess.

Answer 2

Yeah, I grew up in a very KKK populated part of the US. I have seen what they do and heard what they spew for years.
I hate when they bring religion into it too. WHen they quote Jesus' words as justification it's rarely a whole quote or in context.
The shouldn't like Jesus either, he was a good Jewish boy, with a good Jewish mother. He was more than that, but he was that too. It kills me how they forget that.
I don't care how they say what they believeor what they say in front of cameras or online. I grew up around these people and have heard what they say when there is no media around. They are so hate filled and angry, and they are looking for someone to blame. And they don't *JUST* hate minority groups. They hate anyone who is not Pure WHite Anglo Saxon Protestant. If you are Catholic, then you are crap. If you have an ancestor that was Native American, you are inferior. I think it all goes back to the way some people need to run other people down to make them selves FEEL superior, even when they really aren't. Prejudice is always based in ignorance.

And like the previous poster, I am an absolute advocate for free speech. I think the KKK and similar groups come pretty close to crossing the line into when it is no longer just free speech, but something much more sinister and possibly ilegal, but I will absolutely defend their right to be ignorant and to show that ignorance as long as they stay on the right side of that thin line they seem to like to walk. They really are their own worst enemy.

Answer 3

Thanks for your question. I truly do understand your concern. Racism disgusts me as well. However, I cannot honestly voice opposition against the exercise of free speech. I understand that you are not fighting free speech. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that you are questioning the manner by which people exercise their freedom of speech rather than free speech itself.

However, to put it simply, it's the same to me regardless. In other words, free speech is free speech no matter what people say and how/why they say it. Believe me, I do understand why you have a problem with hate-filled speech. And I definitely understand why you have a problem with people using the Bible (a text which is, perhaps, more open to interpretation than any other text) to justify hate. But my point is that we cannot possibly limit free speech if we are to ever achieve equality.

Speech is only an extension of what people feel. And, after all, people do have a right to their feelings and to express them as long as they are not violating the freedoms of others. The important thing is that those feelings, and the expressions of those feelings, do not manifest as violations of others' freedoms. And, in my opinion, speech doesn't violate the freedoms of others unless it involves verbal assault.

Again, I do understand where you're coming from. I dispise racism. And I am just as eager to exercise my freedom of speech regarding the matter as are the racist filth. But I'm not willing to compromise free speech for the sake of fighting racism. To do as such would, in my opinion, render me a hypocrite.

Answer 4

I have a problem with it too. I think freedom of speech has it's limits especially when they are attacking people and generally making others feel unsafe.

Answer 5

People have a right to be racist, & hateful if they want to.Freedom of speech protects the speech that most people hate, not the the speech that most people love.

Answer 6

Did you notice that on the website you mentioned, that one of the speakers at their racist rally was named Don BLACK? How ironic.
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Answer 7

Everyone has the right to exist because some people think that they can change.

Answer 8

that is wrong............ how can they applaud this kind of behaviour..................... the world is a sad place to live in......

Answer 9

not exactly

steriotypical much?