originally posted in:Secular Sevens
Here's the thing that gets me, see I could see this as perfectly fine, if it wasn't for the hypocrisy of the arrest. The KKK is a completely legal group, basically consisting of Whites hating on blacks, jews, etc, etc. Are they shunned? Yes. Is anything done about them? No.
The same goes for westboro baptist church, all they seem to do is attack others in a more violent way than this teenager. they actually go to funerals in front of families and hold hate signs up in from of them. Are they shunned? Yes. Is anything done about them? No.
How is it ok to arrest this ignorant child who is ranting on the internet, and saying dumb shit just as bad as the off-topic forum on this website does, and get arrested. Yet groups completely created for the sole purpose of killing, hating, and discriminating the exact same groups, and more as this kid has, and they are completely legal, going as far as being protected by the police.
If we are going to say that anybody who posts something racist, wishes somebody dead, or something downright wrong in the eyes of humanity such as this, then 90% of the off-topic are now criminals that should be tried in court.
[b]Yes, I know this article was about the UK, but this has happened in the US as well, it's completely stupid anywhere it happens.[/b]
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Good point