[Boston-editorial] hide article?

[Matthew Williams]

I share your discomfort with the picture, but it's not a direct threat 
of violence. And we have hidden some posts where people threatened 
Nazis directly with violence (although we've had to deal with far more 
of Nazis threatening anti-racists with violence). As for removing the 
picture, we generally don't edit the content of posts--we either hide 
them or we leave them. Regardless of whether we hid the post or removed 
the picture, that is sure to anger the folks who originally posted it, 
who will see it as a betrayal by their allies. They would have a 
legitimate point. And we have enough problems to deal with now with all 
these racists posting that I'm not inclined to get into a conflict with 
our allies over this. I'm for leaving it up as is, problematic as it 
may be. -- Matt

On May 4, 2005, at 2:55 PM, Sofia JarrinT wrote:

> Well, I'm not sure.  Gun-wielding images usually
> represent armed resistance against imperalism or
> oligarchy. This picture shows one guy kicking another
> one in the face.  I wouldn't want any of the "Nazi,
> neo-nazi, or fascist" present in the anti-rallies
> kicked in the face.  Most of them, I think, are just
> ignorant idiots or misled lazy people who are unable
> to look into the facts for themselves.
>
> Promoting kicking them in the face to me is really
> about promoting violence.  Maybe we can hide the
> poster and leave the event on the site?
>
> cheers,
> sofia
>
> --- TL <saoirse1220 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> ummm I understand where your coming from sofia but I
>> do disaggree. I think absent an actual call for
>> violence against the Nazis this picture could easily
>> be more of an expression of the sentiment that "we
>> dont want you here". its tough when your dealing
>> with
>> images because its so subjective. I mean people
>> could
>> say the same sorta thing about gun-wielding images
>> of
>> the Panthers, EZLN, and Leila Khalid.
>> -tl
>> --- Sofia JarrinT <sofiajt at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> I think this poster promotes hate and violence and
>>> should be hidden:
>>>
>>>
>>
> http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/35998/index.php
>>>
>>> We should keep the same standards for these kind
>> of
>>> postings, no matter is it's "against Nazis".
>>>
>>> What do you guys think?
>>> sofia
>>>
>>>
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>> Beware,
>> Beware of the thing that is coming
>> Beware of the risen people"
>> - Padraig Pearse, "The Rebel"
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