Thursday, March 29, 2007

Hate speech can help us see.

Hate speech can be used as a way to initiate change. And it may also be a way of helping to prevent people with the same ideas that are not excepted will not group together and fuel each 0thers ideas. Imagine this: I am an Asian student living in a dormitory with all different sorts of students with differing cultural backgrounds. One of the differing backgrounds does not like Asians, but is unable to talk about it in front of people, so this person finds others who feel the same way he does and then they create a group that hates Asians. Instead of talking about this issue with others who do not support this idea the idea is able to fuel itself with support from the same views. But, if the issue was talked about publicly or with someone of differing views there might be a chance for the view to change.

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