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Date Posted: 21:15:37 10/19/04 Tue
Author: A Different Person
Author Host/IP: 172.193.226.224
Subject: Justice

And aren't we all DIFFERENT? Don't we ALL have different opinions, different ideas, different ways of expressing ourselves?

I can understand ANGER. I have gotten angry plenty of times, myself. I've shut people out of my life deliberately because I was SO ANGRY that I didn't think I could ever forgive or speak to those people again. I have never, however, deprived anyone of the right to express themselves appropriately, because of my personal differences with that person.

Someone wrote some very sarcastic and cutting remarks on this forum today, relating to how others reacted to a person's "high school drama" and so on. "The Troll" is certainly entitled to his opinion about anyone. But he missed the point. Rules and guidelines have been specifically outlined for a certain website. Several people who have valuable and articulate opinions have agreed to comply with those rules and contribute to the website.

Today, they were asked to leave the website ALONE. Why? It wasn't because they had broken the rules, it was because the owner of that website has decided to choose that method of expressing HIS PERSONAL PREJUDICE AND DISLIKE.

I really don't care what started it, or IF the people he is excluding offended HIM in any way. I care that this person is acting like a petty tyrant --a Hitler in his own tiny Germany.

What makes it worse is that this particular individual has openly expressed his anguish at personal experience of prejudice and exclusion because of his race and cultural differences. Apparently, he doesn't know ENOUGH about unfair exclusion, because he is doing it, himself.

He needs to put his personal differences aside. He needs to be big enough to admit he is not justified in excluding these two people from his website JUST because he doesn't like them. Feel free to dislike anyone you want. Feel free to go and tell someone else you don't want to talk to them. That is your privilege. But when you set up a public website, complete with specific rules, and others agree to follow those rules,you have NO right, in a logical world, to shut them out.

This is a clear example of prejudice and discrimination based on personal animosity. I am disgusted with the person who'd decided to enforce it. His website is no better than he is and therefore I refuse to contribute to it. Everyone has a right to self-espression, and when you are the one setting up the rules, you have no right to exclude those who obey them.

Shame on you. You know who you are. What you have done is no better than what the Nazi officers did when they cut off the locks of the Hasids in the streets of Europe. You have no right to censor ANYONE because of your personal prejudice. You betray everything you pretend to stand for. I disown you. You have have forgotten. You are intolerant.

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