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The pro-labor Progressives for Immigration Reform | 55 comments (54 topical, 1 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Purpose of SPLC and La Raza smear campaign (3.00 / 2)

To be fair, if five total minutes of googling turns up links to all of these groups, you can rest assured they're tied to neo-Nazi groups, almost undoubtedly directly and undoubtedly indirectly.

I'm sure the militias are in there somewhere, too, this being a Michigan-tied group.

It's a lot the same people making up these groups.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 04:30:02 PM EST
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Re: Purpose of SPLC and La Raza smear campaign (none / 1)

OK, y'all get on with flaming (fairleft does it too).

We can walk through afterwards and count the troll ratings.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 04:34:10 PM EST
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Re: Purpose of SPLC and La Raza smear campaign (3.33 / 3)

While I understand your desire for civil discourse in the case of good-faith disagreements, I don't get how you interpret a strong response to racist postings as 'flaming.' Fairleft is the only one downrating anyone in this thread, which, frankly, doesn't bother me. I'd be ashamed to stay silent or polite on this issue. Flamewars can be destructive when engaged in over issues, but when it comes to racism on ET, then it seems to me counting the troll-ratings after is not a bad thing. Should the community politely ignore it?

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 05:02:53 PM EST
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Re: Purpose of SPLC and La Raza smear campaign (4.00 / 4)

No call to be silent, or even polite, but it's perfectly possible to counter fairleft's nonsense with facts and arguments without needing to get into "brown shirt" territory. As for "flaming", I'm being anticipatory. Perhaps wrongly.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 05:16:50 PM EST
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