As a Jew I'm fairly indifferent to some racist, somewhere in America being out there and trying to raise his family as such. It's not surprising and to me, it's actually pretty boring, if nothing else.
As an American I think the response is pretty... well, un-American. To me this is an issue of free speech, and when free speech occurs, there are going to be people who use it that I disagree with. All the death threats he's getting, and hell, death threats being sent to a completely different family with the same name need to stop. You've got to remember, free speech isn't there to let people on internet forums bash obvious targets like neo nazis. Popular speech doesn't need protection, unpopular, fringe stuff does. This guy and, more importantly, his innocent kids, and poor people who share the same need all just need to be left alone to sort their own shit out.
If you want to talk about dysfunction, there are plenty of fucked up people I know first hand that I'm not interested in talking about. Like I said, it's boring.
As an American I think the response is pretty... well, un-American. To me this is an issue of free speech, and when free speech occurs, there are going to be people who use it that I disagree with. All the death threats he's getting, and hell, death threats being sent to a completely different family with the same name need to stop. You've got to remember, free speech isn't there to let people on internet forums bash obvious targets like neo nazis. Popular speech doesn't need protection, unpopular, fringe stuff does. This guy and, more importantly, his innocent kids, and poor people who share the same need all just need to be left alone to sort their own shit out.
If you want to talk about dysfunction, there are plenty of fucked up people I know first hand that I'm not interested in talking about. Like I said, it's boring.