How exactly is this "fuck(ing) 'em back," brucie? Do you imagine that your thread has the membership of the BNP collectively weeping beneath a forest of wilted St.George's crosses? Like jOhn said, you're only giving them free publicity, and I'm sure all two of them that'll actually read this thread will be absolutely thrilled. You see, your shrill expressions of outrage are the best kind of publicity for a group like this. When you're trying to appeal to disaffected young people, shrieking middle-aged protesters are pure advertising gold. You're playing right into their hands by painting the opposite of racism as something annoying, old fashioned and lame. When you demand they be silent, they're white trash Mandelas. Ban them, and they're fucking Elvis Presley.

This is what's happening in Germany. And this isn't what's happening in the US. Most of the people who show up to US neo-Nazi, KKK, and white power rallies are just there to gawk and laugh and swear at impotent midgets dressed like Hitler or toothless hillbillies in white sheets. The vast majority don't take such buffoonery seriously, and thus the threat is diffused. They're as dangerous as Mickey Mouse. (Shut up. People die at Disneyland.) Which system do you really think is more effective, brucie? Shrieking, or mocking?

There are real, everyday problems with real, everyday racism in our society, from ethnic profiling on our city streets, to the continued social and economic marginalisation of ethnic minorites, to the "war" on "terrorism." A pack of racist clowns having a folk-music barbecue in England is a distraction from these real issues, and nothing to gnash your teeth about. Yes, one should watch them. And, yes, one should oppose them. But don't legitimise them by acknowledging them as something to be feared or respected.

---Lepus Rex