Posted on 08/16/2007 7:56:17 PM PDT by crusher
I was listening to the news out of the corner of my ear when I heard FreeRepublic specifically mentioned as a "hate site" about fifteen minutes ago.
Ostensibly the long report was about the Klan using the web to recruit new wackos. Then the focus turned to Casa Maryland, and their director who claimed that calls for his murder had circulated on the internet by anti-immigrant bigots. It was then that the anchor identified FR by name as a hate site.
In the short time I have been here, this site has changed...a lot.
The Klan has not tried to recruit me. What's wrong we me? Don't answer that.
As I recall, Sasquatch Reno referred to the NRA as a hate group. Might it be that some where within the Hate Crime laws it says anyone belonging to a "Hate Group" can't posses firearms?
lol watch me get banned
BTTT
“(its our secret weapon”
‘It’s a household name.’
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(Tom Hanks as F. Gump)
you too, Who is going to fight the invasion and the terrorists?
News @ Now on FR, Fox 5 named as slanderer of the month.
Oy. Can someone delete this retrospectively?
In all fairness, I have seen long discussions about, among other things, nuking Mecca during the hajj. Whatever your perspective on it, you have to admit that a lot of people would see that as hate.
Vulgar language is not necessarily “hate”, just uncouth.
“I heard FreeRepublic specifically mentioned as a ‘hate site’”
About a year ago, some FR lurker anonymously reported me to the university as being a member of a “white supremacist hate website,” Free Republic. The university police made me come in for questioning and review of the FR site and my postings to the site. Needless to say it was quite embarassing despite the fact that they clearly saw that FR was not what the lurker reported.
My thoughts, they don’t appear in very damn many. Let’s be a little bit scientific about this.
"..An article published yesterday by the Sean Sands of Maryland Community Newspapers Online quoted Casa de Maryland’s Executive Director Gustavo Torres saying “We are going to picket their houses, and the schools of their kids and go to their work. If they are going to do this to us, we are going to respond in the same way, to let people know their neighbors are extremists, that they are anti-immigrant. They are going to hear from us.”.."
Gustavo Torres was the featured “victim” on the TV report. It is easy to see why posters might make veiled or not so veild threats in his case. The reporter did not give specific examples, probably because she could not risk having them put in proper context. Torres is a thug to suggest picketing the schools of opponents children.
Google search on Gustavo Torres returns 41 results for freerepublic.com, hardly public enemy number one.
Google search on Osama Bin Laden returns 24,100 results for freerepublic.com.
Not a very good example of "a lot of hate here these days."
You seem to have taken some of his remarks personally.
So you're saying it requires profanity before one can interpret it as "hate?" I don't think so. And the language of the example I posted is undeniably vulgar.
IF the recipient is offended, it’s that person’s responsibility to defend themselves or launch a counter-attack that also falls below the indecency radar.
The topic, however, is whether somebody from the outside would be justified in calling FR a "hate site." Posts like the one I posted are all they'd need to form such an opinion -- and there have been a LOT of posts like that in the past year or two.
Free speech is all well and good -- but with freedom comes responsibility. And FReepers who abuse their freedom of speech to the point of sounding like Klansmen are not only hurting themselves, but they're hurting the rest of FR as well.
Hate is in the eyes of the beholder and who is going to set the standards on what constitutes hate? Is disagreement hate? sarcasm? humor? symbolism?
What offends one may not necessarily offend another, is being offended by someone's post now mean it's 'hate'? I hate liberals and everything they stand for, am I allowed to voice that sentiment or is that more 'hate' speech? Am I now a hateful person? But I also love conservatism, why am I not now a person full of love? This whole 'hate' debate is nauseatingly feminine, am I now a sexist?
You can't censor hateful thoughts in a 'free' Republic and still be free but you can expose them for what they are with a consensus of legitimate responses IF in fact hate is what they truly are, is any and all name-calling now considered 'hate' speech and was Free Republic's primary purpose to be a forum free from acrimony or dare I say 'hate' thoughts?
you don’t have to type out the post, you’re referencing it as you hit the abuse button of that particular post. There is a space to make a comment on the abuse you’re reporting if you so desire. (I meant no unkindness with my ‘are ye blind’ post, lol! As I am rapidly aging my brain is falling behind often!)
To many liberals, simple disapproval = “hate”.
Except, of course, the other way around about non-liberals.
Then anything goes...
The word "hate" only gets used in this way by people who want to end free speech. It's unbelievable how many people have bought into this liberal, ultra-PC definition of the word.
Yup. This is an on going battle.
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