Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
You should talk with an iranian friend of mine - he lived through the revolution and would enlighten you on the importance of freedom of speech, especially unpopular speech. Before I was like you thinking that "bad" speech should be illegal but he opened my eyes as to evils of this strategy.
I dont have to go to the US to speak with a guy that lived through the Iranian revulotion, I can just walk over to the next house and ask. He got away, cause he had a close relative that was the Iranian Ambassadur in US.
I can also ask the Guy from Bosnia, who lives aside of him, how he felt when he realized that the bus he and his mother sneaked of from during a stop, carried all the rest of his relatives to their death. They died because they where Muslims.
Ask them what they says when people want them to "get out of this country, you muslim" and ask them what they think about that this not being allowed to say in public, on television, in books, etc.
The freedome of speach, is not to generalize any folkgroups, by ethnic heritage, religon or colour.
You might think diffrently, but I don´t.