Quote Originally Posted by southernsoftie View Post
So is suppression of free speech. Unfortunately you cannot caveat free speech: "free speech is fine as long as I agree with it".

Racism will always exist and we will always have to live alongside it. It's disappointing - from the point of view of a non-racist - that the BNP have won a platform to spread their message further, but the way around that isn't to ban the BNP. It is to address the root cause of their success:

- Economic downturn always leads to greater success for those of extreme political views

- Disillusionment with the existing political mechanisms

- Anger at the behaviour of our elected representatives

- Lack of a sensible, workable immigration policy

- In areas of high tension as a result of poor integration, an effective community integration policy (very hard to make work without it looking like tokenism/pandering/contrived)

To name a few. Plenty to be getting on with then.
No thanks I'll stick with my original statement that racism is wrong - FACT!!

What you're doing up there is making excuses why people are voting for the BNP, there is no excuse, it is wrong to vote for them. There are lots of problems about, but the answer isn't voting for racists unless you are racist.

We are having this conversation about giving them freedom of speech only because racism is legal, if you think it should be legal then you are racist. If you are not racist then you know how abhorrent racism is, that it does not deserve the privilege of free speech and that it should be made illegal in order to stamp it out.

And lets face it you either are racist or you're not.