27th May 2004, 12:39 PM
What last part, DJ? That it's bad for people to be considerate at the speeches of people they disagree with, and that maintaining civility is a good thing? What, you'd prefer it the way the US is now, with everything so incredibly polarized? I don't think that that's the better way for things to be... can't be helped at this point, but what other countries do (with much more frendliness between parties) is much better.
And it may not be illegal (though I don't know, there probably should be some kind of punishment if it really gets bad... but determining that is hard and a law doing that that's too vague could be used badly, so it'd have to be very well defined...) to boo the person, but your defense of it is pitiful. He can go elsewhere or something? Come ON! He's there to speak. He is the guest. THEY can leave if they don't like it. He should NOT have to. That is absurd. Like political conventions. They don't have to let the protesters in. They give them a space somewhere outside. It's ridiculous for you people to defend people for having done something like this... and yes, I do feel the same the other way around. As I said before, I may utterly disagree with the white supremacists, but if they rent a room I'll recognize their right to meet...
And it may not be illegal (though I don't know, there probably should be some kind of punishment if it really gets bad... but determining that is hard and a law doing that that's too vague could be used badly, so it'd have to be very well defined...) to boo the person, but your defense of it is pitiful. He can go elsewhere or something? Come ON! He's there to speak. He is the guest. THEY can leave if they don't like it. He should NOT have to. That is absurd. Like political conventions. They don't have to let the protesters in. They give them a space somewhere outside. It's ridiculous for you people to defend people for having done something like this... and yes, I do feel the same the other way around. As I said before, I may utterly disagree with the white supremacists, but if they rent a room I'll recognize their right to meet...