By being a BNP member, you are stamping your seal of approval on their opinions and beliefs, rather than having your own but not feeling obliged to show your support
I’ve kept saying I don’t support the BNP. So why must I now point out I'm not a member either? When you respond to a thread perhaps you should read enough to keep you’re posts relevant.
Every party wishes to increase security, improve education and medical care, social responsibility and criminal justice etc... It's a easier said than done.
Everything is easier said than done, but there are easyier ways of accomplishing these things which others rule against on the grounds they’re "extreme". Personally I like things done.
As for being denied employment in positions of social responsibility, rightly so! I wouldn't want my child educated by a miscreant who denies that the Jews were murdered. I wouldn't want a homophobic BNP member policing my gay pride event.
Many people wouldn’t want their children educated by an Islamic Fundamentalist, a Communist, or a Tory or Labour activist.
However it doesn’t bother me a great deal because when they get home I'm more than happy to confront their views. After all children are going to be exposed to different views at some points in their lives, so you may as well start when they’re young as opposed to like 22.
The only thing that would make me mad is if the teacher were using tax payers funded curriculum time to impose their beliefs, or if there was indoctrination going on (which is basically the fear you’re trying to raise).
So too this end there should be a law against "indoctrination in the classroom", however it should be against all kinds of political indoctrination rather than just some-one.
As for the homophobic police officer policing a gay pride march, I say providing he can does the job well then he’s ok in my view.
Most people do their job well even when they disagree with it. (I don’t know about you) but if you’ve ever been employed by a boss you’ll find it’s quite common occurrence!
In my opinion trying to police people’s private beliefs is totalitarian, and I despise totalitarianism. It’s not like you’re totalitarianism can even be justified on the grounds it works well, when it’s obviously so easily evaded. I would guess 90% of the time (at least).
Originally posted by Mintwithahole
Apparently old Adolf Hitler was a very intelligent man yet his politics and his treatment of the Jews was abhorent. In your argument you would give him the right to peddle his racist ideals and not step in and stop him?
Actually I would at least have a chance of stopping him, (or perhaps more probably just his arguments) by the power of intellect.
You on the other hand would have almost no chance at all. You might lock him up, where he spreads his views to others inside a prison, and becomes a martyr to his followers outside. Or you might just shoot him where he becomes a permanent martyr, as well as “a demonstration” to his supporters of why they are justified in using the most extreme measures possible against you.
As the Israelis have discovered with Hamas: “you can keep on shooting you’re political enemies, but as long as the conditions are right another one is always willing to step in”. Therefore (sooner or latter) you fail; which is why Hamas eventually got elected (in spite of) (or perhaps aided by) the fact nearly that nearly all its early founders had been killed by Israel, and many others since before its election.
As for Holocaust denial, I'm happy to live in society were people can claim black is white.
Personally I believe one old fellow (I actually met) about what he saw in one of the camps.
However the primary claim of most holocaust deniers is that less than 6 million people denied. I don’t know if this claim is true or not. However I do know that people who’ve said it allowed have been locked up in Germany and other areas of Western Europe.
So I prefer to just say my opinion is: “At least 6 people died in holocaust” . This is totally true, in fact I believe many, many more than 6 people died, but I needn’t say so explicitly (especially if it won't irritate the thought police as much).



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