Danilo wrote:
With all due respect, amadjuster, you saying "there is no middle ground" does not make it so. I question you when you say "I'm either with them, or against them"...a rather bold statement.
A bold statement is called for when someone advocates the elimination of people based on their ethnicity, elimination of all people of that ethnicity. "There is no middle ground" most definitely applies there.
Danilo wrote:
Remember: if you would deny another free citizen their right of thought and expression, you're rights to the same may one day be in jeopardy.
This has become routine. Someone makes bigoted or racist statements, and should anyone challenge them on that they start complaining that their "free speech" is being violated. This operates to make racist and bigoted narratives exempt from critical analysis or refutation.
I reject utterly the illogical line of reasoning that tells us we cannot counter bigoted statements because the person expressing the bigotry has the "right to free speech." So do the critics of the bigot.
Danilo wrote:
It's my belief we can rest assured there are few on this forum who sympathize with these two individuals. And if they suffer from misinformation, we should keep in mind it's allowed in our free society.
How can this problem -people "suffer(ing) from misinformation" - possibly ever be corrected if a few do not speak out in opposition to the bigotry?
If a person at UHH posted repeatedly that all Nikon users were dangerous and evil, and that we should not listen to anything they say, that Nikon users were the source of all of the world's problems, and that all Nikon users should be put 6 feet under, and then accused anyone who objected to that of being a Nikon appeaser or of suppressing their freedom of speech, how long would they last here?
Management would not want one person or a handful of people to be alienating and attacking those who use Nikon cameras, for good reason. Management wants an environment friendly to Nikon users, of course. Yet we have a steady barrage of bigotry aimed at Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, and Moslems here, day after day. That is much worse, because using Nikon equipment is a choice, one's ethnicity is not.
Mike