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From the BBC
Alabama newspaper editor calls on KKK to lynch Democrats
The editor and publisher of a local paper in Alabama is under fire for penning an editorial calling for mass lynchings by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
The opinion piece ran in his print-only newspaper, the Democrat-Reporter, last Thursday, Goodloe Sutton confirmed on Tuesday.
He said Democrats were going to raise taxes and that the KKK should hang them and raid Washington DC.
Alabama lawmakers have called for Sutton to resign.
The KKK is one of the oldest white supremacy groups in the US, formed just after the civil war. The group was behind many of the lynchings, rapes and violent attacks on African Americans in the 1900s.
The editorial began garnering attention online after students from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, tweeted photographs of the article.
COMMENT:-
What's the big problem here? Doesn't the 1st Amendment protect "freedom of the press" and "freedom of speech"? I mean, didn't the editorial SPECIFICALLY STATE "It's not calling for the lynchings of Americans."? I mean it's not as if the editorial were calling for hangings based on race, religion, gender, physical impediment, or national origin (doing that would be illegal) - right? Besides if those left-wing, loony, liberal, socialist, pinko, commie, N***** lovin', so-called "students" hadn't made a big fuss over nothing who would have cared - right?
Alabama newspaper editor calls on KKK to lynch Democrats
The editor and publisher of a local paper in Alabama is under fire for penning an editorial calling for mass lynchings by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
The opinion piece ran in his print-only newspaper, the Democrat-Reporter, last Thursday, Goodloe Sutton confirmed on Tuesday.
He said Democrats were going to raise taxes and that the KKK should hang them and raid Washington DC.
Alabama lawmakers have called for Sutton to resign.
The KKK is one of the oldest white supremacy groups in the US, formed just after the civil war. The group was behind many of the lynchings, rapes and violent attacks on African Americans in the 1900s.
The editorial began garnering attention online after students from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, tweeted photographs of the article.
COMMENT:-
What's the big problem here? Doesn't the 1st Amendment protect "freedom of the press" and "freedom of speech"? I mean, didn't the editorial SPECIFICALLY STATE "It's not calling for the lynchings of Americans."? I mean it's not as if the editorial were calling for hangings based on race, religion, gender, physical impediment, or national origin (doing that would be illegal) - right? Besides if those left-wing, loony, liberal, socialist, pinko, commie, N***** lovin', so-called "students" hadn't made a big fuss over nothing who would have cared - right?