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threeplusfire) wrote2005-11-04 03:49 pm
threeplusfire) wrote2005-11-04 03:49 pm
casual hatred
The other day I caught the new Harry Potter preview on television. Wow. The Death Eaters are much more sinister looking than I expected. Is it just me or do they look an awful lot like the KKK in that preview? This is where the story takes a darker turn though, and I’m curious to see how that will play out on film. Two more weeks and it will be out!
Speaking of the Klan, they will be in Austin this weekend. How lovely. They are coming to show their support for Prop 2, banning gay marriage and civil unions. There is a group planning on mooning the Klan, which is delightful and a brilliant tactic. Mostly I hope we can just ignore them. I feel bad for businesses in the area. Nothing to depress sales like a group of fanatics in pointy hoods screaming through bullhorns.
The new episode of SVU this week dealt with white supremacists and was superbly terrifying. How do you deal with the children raised in these homes and schooled down to the bone in bigotry and fear? What can you do for them? Does reason ever trump blind hate? I have no idea. It gives me the hives. You end up with things like Prussian Blue. I feel sad for those kids.
It is all such a fine line to walk with the issues of free speech and hate speech. I have no answer for that question either. I believe so strongly in the right to expression. It might just be easier if we had laws against being a complete and utter idiot, but then who will arbitrate that? Me of course! And then I will ship all the stupid people into the sun and live happily ever after.
Speaking of the Klan, they will be in Austin this weekend. How lovely. They are coming to show their support for Prop 2, banning gay marriage and civil unions. There is a group planning on mooning the Klan, which is delightful and a brilliant tactic. Mostly I hope we can just ignore them. I feel bad for businesses in the area. Nothing to depress sales like a group of fanatics in pointy hoods screaming through bullhorns.
The new episode of SVU this week dealt with white supremacists and was superbly terrifying. How do you deal with the children raised in these homes and schooled down to the bone in bigotry and fear? What can you do for them? Does reason ever trump blind hate? I have no idea. It gives me the hives. You end up with things like Prussian Blue. I feel sad for those kids.
It is all such a fine line to walk with the issues of free speech and hate speech. I have no answer for that question either. I believe so strongly in the right to expression. It might just be easier if we had laws against being a complete and utter idiot, but then who will arbitrate that? Me of course! And then I will ship all the stupid people into the sun and live happily ever after.
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I've been seeing links to that Prussian Blue thing everywhere lately for some reason (I guess pretty young blonde girls are automatically interesting to everyone in any capacity, she said cynically--the JonBenet Effect). I feel really, really sorry for either of these girls should they ever grow up enough to renounce the brainwashing they've both been subjected to, because no matter how emphatically they might reject it they now have a nice media shit trail that will follow them around for the rest of their lives.
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I think the kids are going to be on Dateline or some other show. The kids make me sad.
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