As a Person of Color, I'm heartened to see so many Mudcatters indicating their disgust of the BNP and putting that disgust into action by publicly advocating against that group.

I'm also sad to think that there are members of this forum who would not respect me just because my ancestry includes some persons who were not White.

I can understand how a person could have been friends with people with whom they disagree politically. However, I agree with most of the member posters on this thread that there are some issues of disagreement which should mean the end of a friendship. When this happens to friends and family it can be very difficult and very sad.

For the record, I agree with Lox's approach for the person to call out his or her "friend" on the issues. But at some point it seems to me that there's no sense wasting one's energy trying to talk sense to people who believe in the things that BNP and other similar groups believe in.

And it will come as no surprise to folks here, that I'm much closer aligned to Bruce's no holds bar attitude toward the BNP than Joe's position that "these discussions are a chance for us to make contact with them and find out what they think and why they think it". There's more than enough documentation online about who the BNP really are and what they advocate. If Mudcatters treats them kindly, they will use this forum as a propaganda base.

But most folks here already know that.