A bit like the England football team forced to do a seig heil to Hitler in the '30s. Sir Stanley Matthews said the image haunted him in later years.

No, sorry Eliza. On this one, niceties don't work. Both our countries have a proud past of confronting bigotry and slowly but surely killing sections of it off. We have people on this website who are free to propagate hatred towards others, question the right of some people to exist and then call those who question them the fascists.

Most websites use moderation to recognise and pull it in. By not doing so, shallow people wrongly think their extreme views are acceptable in decent society.

None of us are perfect, I'm less perfect than most. But reading some contributions here just proves you cannot engage with Mudcat if you are offended by hatred towards your very existence. Because nobody is stopping the criminals from propagating their hatred. (Incidentally, those saying The US protect freedom of bad speech may wish to look at the federal courts case list. They include Abu Hamzir, who was extradited from The UK for amongst other things, publishing incitement to hatred.