Sikh Temple Massacre Casts Light on White-Power Rock: Censor Hate Music?
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2012/08/09 21:00:00
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The murderer who killed six members of the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin founded a white-power rock group in 2005. This connection exposed a link between hate groups and their music, which includes lyrics of hateful acts toward minorities, Jews and non-whites.
Marilyn Mayo monitors hate groups for the Anti-Defamation League. Mayo told the AFP, "Hate music helps bring haters together into a shared community." Hate groups and their members meet through hate music and hate-music festivals.
“Racist music is what keeps the movement young” and sets it apart from the image of white-hooded Ku Klux Klan members “sitting on the front porch with a shotgun,” said one-time skinhead Frank Meeink on MSNBC television. Do you think hate music should be censored? Will censoring this type of music prevent tragedies like the Wisconsin massacre from happening?
Marilyn Mayo monitors hate groups for the Anti-Defamation League. Mayo told the AFP, "Hate music helps bring haters together into a shared community." Hate groups and their members meet through hate music and hate-music festivals.
“Racist music is what keeps the movement young” and sets it apart from the image of white-hooded Ku Klux Klan members “sitting on the front porch with a shotgun,” said one-time skinhead Frank Meeink on MSNBC television. Do you think hate music should be censored? Will censoring this type of music prevent tragedies like the Wisconsin massacre from happening?
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I realize this doesn't help the families of the victims cope, I am truly sorry that this happened to them.
No. You need to let people like this speak, so that everyone with a brain can openly make fun of them for their stupid ideas. You will not end hate by hiding it, it will end when it is shown be a painfully moronic joke.
And what kind of pansy-ass has something wrong with that?
Let them sing their silly hate songs and they just show how ignorant they are.
Even more alarmed when "hate" is the justification. That is way too arbitrary a term to trust to the legal system even if you support specific censorship; if you're pro-censorship at least be specific enough about what you want banned not to get bitten in the ass yourself when a courts interpret your language.
Better yet, don't support government censorship at all. Instead support the rights of business owners to stock, or refuse to stock, what they choose. Then go talk to your local store owners about how they exercise that freedom (odds are you're on the same side). This also avoids attracting more attention to those products.