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I agree. This is a case where airing of opinions and open discussion is 
beneficial and advances the truth.  (As long as people take the trouble 
to reply and give counterbalancing arguments and it doesn't get 
personally abusive.) - Ken

On 12 Aug 2002 at 19:50, finn c. wrote:

> Hi
> 
> > There are several worrying posts about white supremacy  - keyed off this 
> > article -
> > 
> > http://www.indymedia.org.nz/front.php3?article_id=616&group=webcast
> > 
> > on the site newswire - my initial reaction would have been to remove the 
> > original (clearly racist in my view) post, but it has received many 
> > posts since then - some supporting and some opposing. So, I'm just 
> > drawing peoples attention to it and asking your thoughts.
> 
> I think that this article:
> 
> a) promotes discussion
> b) makes racists look dumb
> 
> So it should stay. I'd be keen to leave stuff like this on the wire unless:
> 
> a) it attacks someone personally (like the poster of an article)
> b) turns into spam - ie like all the racist israel/palestine articles that used to clog the global wire.
> 
> Like the last racist article that you hid - yup it was racist, but I think that it would be better to highlight this racism with a comment, rather than hiding it.
> 
> If our wire gets taken over by several australian nazies, then it will be a different story.
> 
> finn 
> 
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