Every website, channel, and phone line, will be controlled by one unit.
We cannot let the FCC, Comcast and its mergers destroy the tool that has connected us so far. TRANSCRIPT: http://pastebin.com/u16wNPbp LINK: https://www.youtube.com/inbox?action_... Follow @TheAnonMessage for the latest updates. We've all seen it, and if you haven't, you will at some point find yourself engaging with it. That poison chalice filled with vile and virulent dialogue, spiteful unjustified racism and bigotry against colour difference, religion, gender, beauty...the list goes on. What fuels someone's delusion and moulds their thoughts to formulate ideas of hate in this way? I would argue that there is no original thought in the bigot's mind. They are just part of a sad and pitiful group of people who have nothing really significant to contribute to intellectual thought or positive to society. How can the bigot believe that violent acts of volatile text, online, really change their community for the better? Or, do these people want blood on the streets in the name of....what exactly? They never specify do they, it always just seems to be a personal grudge they are airing. Then there is the fact that they are just another cog in the nationalist machine, following their leader, one little racist following another without any true justification for their thoughts or actions, just a mechanical action of doing because others do. So, how do we deal with this when we happen across it? Our human instinct is to fight back with words of wisdom, but, are they wasted on people like this? Is it down to education? I don't mean school education, I mean a general understanding and lack of reading and research etc. Can the bigot change? Do we just ignore them? Attempt to change them? Lead them to a more positive viewpoint? Humiliate them? We will all find our own way to deal with this but, one thing is for sure, they certainly do a good job of revealing themselves! What is irksome, is how often they take cultural symbols and misappropriate them, abuse them and strip them of their original and positive meaning. The most famous of which being the swastika of course, which has it's roots in antiquity and once stood for wealth, prosperity and auspiciousness. Now it is dirtied with fascism and gross human cruelty. And anyone who takes the modern cultural symbol of the red 'V' and spray paints it anywhere in the name of bigotry, completely misappropriates it and misses the gyst of that story completely (the contemporary graphic novel V for Vendetta that is). I could mention more, but at the risk of getting boring! So, we have to resist these people online, engage with them carefully or not at all and try to remember that they are a minority, with the squeak of a mouse attempting to have the growl of a lion and overcompensating for their weakness by spewing out diatribe and stealing symbols of humanity because they have no creative thoughts to make any of their own. Please share your thoughts here, on this blog or on the forums, your experiences and ideas are welcome. MB Please share your thoughts and ideas here
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