Posts by mark taslov
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Beyond the barrier 1
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Hard News: Party on, dudes, in reply to Ross Mason,
And I haven't been chucked for trolling!!!!!
Same, I'm dumbfounded. capital T for tolerance round these parts, and to echo Che and Paul: PAS=turangawaewae. You are a champion Russell, sincerely...and everyone else champions too; best supporting champions, associate champions, para-champions, but most of all, just damn fine people.
tas lov'
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Hard News: Crossing the line into idle bigotry, in reply to Stephen Judd,
As a Jew, my interest in preserving your free speech rights to vilify my ethnic affiliation is balanced with my fear of a neo nazi eejit being pushed over the edge to put theory into practice.
Totally Stephen. In terms of locating the boundary that DeepRed mentions, I'd be interested in reading any studies on correlation between hate speech and hate crimes. Perhaps wrongly I'd assumed it may be akin to pornography/rape causality argument. The internet is rife with hate speech, has there been a major shift in hate crime stats since the web went household? Or does literature merely preach to the (un)converted, the bias/ action attributable primarily to formative education?
It is difficult to tell if hate crimes are on the rise or on the decline. On the one hand, reporting hate crimes is a voluntary action taken by States and localities. Some States with clear histories of racial prejudice and intolerance have reported zero incidents of hate crimes. At the same time, many victims of hate crimes are often reluctant to come forward -- a direct result of the trauma caused by the crime. Although the Hate Crime Statistics Act was passed in 1990, States have only been collecting and reporting information about these crimes to the FBI since 1991. It appears that for those States and localities that have reported hate crimes, the number of incidents nationwide has continued to hover annually somewhere between 6,000 and 8,600. Again, this may be indicative simply of the reporting or non-reporting trends of different localities
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to Islander,
Whom I trust have *always* been in the minority
The smackers yes. The tacit enablers not at all.
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to Lilith __,
The same parents who smacked their children, who sent them off to schools knowing they'd endure brutal initiations, bullying and God knows what other suffering, having endured it themselves. The countless parents who have refused to rock the apple cart for millenia.
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Hilarious, I love that image, thanks Joe.
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I’d say Muldoon laid the groundwork for it
Thanks DeepRed, makes sense.
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Punk rock was a bit like James Dean – short-lived, but the impact was everlasting.
Jones sure bought that marketing pitch, different day new scissors.
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Hard News: When we had hope and change, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Sounds bang on. Under whose leadership did this become the norm?
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This was in the day when the PM would take the bus from the airport to get home, satchel in hand, no minder or security whatsoever. How times have changed.
I’d be interested to know when and why the paranoia kicked in.
