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I would hope calling cruel bigots in Missouri or anywhere else "some of the worst of humanity" is not divisive. > In 2014, a group of 15 white schoolgirls blac
by istjohn 9y ago
I would hope calling cruel bigots in Missouri or anywhere else "some of the worst of humanity" is not divisive.
> In 2014, a group of 15 white schoolgirls blacked up their faces for a game of football. A few months previously, as riots blazed in Ferguson after the police shooting of Michael Brown, a group of Sullivan residents, Wehmeyer’s neighbour among them, staged a KKK march through town.
In as much as his comment makes an observation from his own experience that is congruent with the thrust of the article: the American South continues to be flush with cruel, unabashed racists, I'm not sure why it is being censored. Does it cross the line to say in plain language what the article says circuitously?
- ScottBurson 9y agoNote that the original post has been edited (see sibling comment to yours).
- Mononokay 9y agoHe was referring to the original. Hence the comment on "some of the worst of humanity," a bit of wording I used in the original post, not the edited one.
- greglindahl 9y agoDang posting a polite comment, to which the author responded positively by editing his post, is censoring? Excessive generalization is the problem, by the way. It's important to be careful to criticize a particular behavior without criticizing everyone in the region.
- istjohn 9y ago>Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or "inconvenient" (wikipedia) Yes, and it effected the desired result: the speech was altered.
- sethrin 9y agoYes, and this is consistent with the rules of this private forum.
- dang 9y agoThere are many kinds of cruelty. It's possible to eschew one without practicing another, and very much in the community interest.