Comments on: Former Neo-Nazi Leader Sentenced to Prison for Threats

By: Snorlax

Snorlax — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:40:10 +0000

One less attendee at next Monday’s teabagger soiree’.

I’m sure he will be missed by all.

By: Ruslan Amirkhanov

Ruslan Amirkhanov — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:24:34 +0000

Ignorance is a strange thing. Sure, many WNs are ignorant, but not in the way people think. Some of them can be quite intelligent but they are ignorant of things outside their experience. For example, many of them take it for granted that this identity of “white” actually means something outside of America, or that they can go to Europe and say “HEY I’M EUROPEAN, LIKE YOU!!”

They may also be superficially educated on subjects like history, but only history that fits their historical narrative. Faced with facts which contradict that narrative, they are rendered helpless- such was the case with one local Islamophobe WN here, who was neutralized when I informed him of all the examples of Europeans working with the Islamic world throughout history.

By: TIM

TIM — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:15:23 +0000

It’s a sad world we live in. It’s not so much about education but what tree you came from. Bernie Maddoff, Tom Delay, Bob Ney, all the wall street bankers and many, mnay, more prominant people are ignorant. Hell I can’t spell but I have a masters degree from the University of Illinois. I know lots of uneducated people who are the kindest peop;e in the world. Even many conservatives and liberals however misguided they are abhor hate mongers. In the words of a famous american Rodney King “can’t we all just get along”?

By: Tom A. F.

Tom A. F. — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:02:50 +0000

O.K., trying to reform the extreme, social sickos is a waste of resources, but, having Bill White grow organic vegetables for poor Americans would do much good. We need to exploit these misfits as restitution to society. Our prisons hold a formidable, yet, idle workforce.

By: Hatewatch

Hatewatch — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:29:43 +0000

Skinnyminny, That was Don Black, who currently runs Stormfront.

By: skinnyminny

skinnyminny — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:21:18 +0000

Is this the same Bill White that, with other extremists attempt a coup on the caribbean island, the Commonwealth of Dominica (but plan failed, and group detained in Florida), as a means to ‘have their own country?’

By: bryony1

bryony1 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:18:18 +0000

“Education is the cure for ignorance.”

No, it’s not. Did you read the NY Times poll of Tea Baggers? Most claim to be well-educated, though their misspelled signs and delusions about the president being a Muslim born outside the U.S. show that “education” is no cure for irrational hatred and racism.

When I taught journalism at San Francisco State University in the ’80s, I was horrified to find that most seniors could not spell and could not write an article in a logical fashion, though they’d been being “educated” for four years.

People who join hate groups, like the Tea Baggers, whites-only militias, etc., are ignorant as the day is long, “educated” or not. Penalties for doing what this ex-Neo-Nazi who was just sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail should be much more severe than that, based on what he did and for how long he did it.

He’s not the only one. I’ve been emailed by an irrational hate-monger in the SF Bay Area that I’ve already breathed too much of other people’s air. These people are everywhere, their hate-filled delusions are quite real, and if they act on them their penalties should be a lot more than 2 1/2 years. They’re dangerous.

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:48:53 +0000

He’d be worse than useless at a health clinic. They don’t want him in their way. He should be sentenced to doing something useful where he can’t cause more trouble. Do prisoners make license plates in West Virginia?

By: Tom A. F.

Tom A. F. — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:57:34 +0000

Sending Bill White to prison, the University of Hate, will allow him to organize with his comrades. He should be sentenced to working in a poor, black, health clinic in New Orleans. Education is the cure for ignorance.

By: cindy hawkins-legorreta

cindy hawkins-legorreta — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:14:49 +0000

Now that the Internet is so much a part of our lives, new opportunities for on line harassment and mis-use of the web is a real possibility. It’s depressing but, we need to keep aware that free speech still does not include hate speech – be it spoken, or electronic.