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Thread #128242   Message #2870515
Posted By: Don Firth
23-Mar-10 - 11:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: Seeger Smothers Party- Left=right?
Subject: RE: BS: Seeger Smothers Party- Left=right?
Jaysus, Little Hawk!!

Conrad is advocating a philosophy and a world view that prevailed in much of Europe in the mid-twentieth century and engendered the atrocities that are shown in the pictures. Or if he is not advocating the philosophy itself, he is advocating that if it should rear its head again, we should not only tolerate it, we should welcome it in our social and musical circles.

Would you like it if someone posted a bunch of pictures of child abuse and genocide here and then said, "This tells you all you need to know about Don Firth." ???

That, Little Hawk, doesn't deserve an answer. Once again, you cling to Dante's "colorless neutrality," no matter how much you try to deny it. You say you believe this, that, and the other thing, but then you criticize people who take a strong stand on important issues.

Conrad, I believe in freedom, including the freedom to hold whatever views you want. But when you speak out in favor of a philosophy that advocates the kind of things that led to what is shown in the photos I linked to, then I feel it's my duty as a moral human being to speak out strongly against it.

That's freedom. I have the freedom to criticize what you advocate. So don't you--or Little Hawk--try to muzzle me!

Don Firth