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Should the far right be given a platform? Last month, the BBC came under fire for inviting members of the British National Party to the popular current events television program Question Time, resulting in the reversal of the Labour Party's long standing rule of never sharing a platform with the far right. The BBC defended its actions, citing that if the far right had a platform then it would open space for debate and that BBC had to be politically impartial. Links http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questi...

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anthraxrocks Male, 13-17 Eastern US Joined: 2 yrs, 3 mos ago 5,230 Posts	Wednesday 10/7/09 - 4:57:01 PM quote message All people should, that doesn't mean they're worth listening to. They're given a platform over here, it's called the Republican Party.
Kungfullama Male, 13-17 Eastern US Joined: 4 yrs, 9 mos ago 35,352 Posts	Wednesday 10/7/09 - 5:01:22 PM quote message of course they should. Every position should be given a platform. And the more chances the far-right gets to speak, the more likely the population is to wise up on how insane they are.
trainwrec Male, 18-29 Europe Joined: 7 yrs, 11 mos ago 2,134 Posts	Wednesday 10/7/09 - 5:24:02 PM quote message Of course they should.. Here, one party that is far to the right, compared to other parties in Norway, got roughly 23% in the last ellection, yet every other political party shut them out, refuse to deal with them etc..
Abzurd Male, 70+ Canada Joined: 4 yrs, 8 mos ago 38,870 Posts	Thursday 10/8/09 - 10:39:32 PM quote message It's better to have the far right having their own representation than them sneaking into the usual right wing parties.
Qpax Male, 18-29 Europe Joined: 5 yrs, 1 mos ago 3,422 Posts	Thursday 10/8/09 - 10:50:19 PM quote message Of course they should. It irritates me that there's even a debate about it: that so-called democratic people, so-called liberal people, would want to go against the idea of free speech in a manner so hypocritical as to be incredible. Apparently they can't see the hypocrisy in denying the far-right a chance to express themselves. If you don't belive in free speech for your enemies, then you don't believe in free speech at all, and all that.
glennh70 moderator Male, 30-39 Europe Joined: 6 yrs, 9 mos ago 28,833 Posts	Friday 10/9/09 - 8:13:03 AM quote message On Wednesday 10/7/09 - 5:01:22 PM Kungfullama wrote: of course they should. Every position should be given a platform. I guess we can all agree it gets fuzzy if they start to incite violence or encourage hate?
KLL_LIBERALS Male, 70+ Asia Joined: 1 month ago 8 Posts	Friday 10/9/09 - 10:21:03 AM quote message On Wednesday 10/7/09 - 5:01:22 PM Kungfullama wrote: of course they should. Every position should be given a platform. And the more chances the far-right gets to speak, the more likely the population is to wise up on how insane they are. Go back to revleft, scumwhore. I would like to make you watch as me and some Jews and Western Europeans gang-raped your mother... oh wait you'd probably get off on that.

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