>>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/11/black-publishers-racism-wilson-outburst-join-boycott-south-carolina/?test=latestnews
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>>Standard Operating Procedure for Obama fans.
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>I have read the link, not the webpage it leads to. Fox news has lost every shred of credibility over the last ten years - if Rupert Murdoch's propaganda machine ever had any.
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>But I presume you don't care that I won't read it, and why should you. That's beside the point. It's that you picked the wrong messenger, because I actually agree that this is dangerous.
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>In Tito's times we were maybe the most free and most liberal among the socialist countries, the borders were open, we traveled and had tourists - but there was one limitation to it, the so called "verbal delict" law. It simply meant you could get arrested for something you said, if the powers that be decide that what you said was dangerous enough, a slander on the president or government or whichever top brass, or system or The Party or whatever. Not many people got arrested on it, but the point was that there was the possibility that your newspaper may be banned for a while, or that you may lose the tenure, or that your movie will not see production. Regularly, it didn't go much further than having the local troublemakers incarcerated for the duration of a big politician's to visit to a little town, but there were some famous cases of careers being cut, theatrical plays being permanently canceled etc etc.
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>Now if you can be branded a racist for this kind of infraction, just like you could be branded antisemite if you quoted from Jerusalem Post, well... that leads to the same kind of censorship. And worse, self-censorship. When you start watching for what you say or write, as a way of staying out of trouble.

Your response picqued my interest so I read the article. It is pretty scary actually. My concerns are 1) he may really be racist but if that is the case, address it through the correct channels 2) if he is not racist (we have to assume not until his voting history or behavior demonstrates he is), this has turned a real issue into something that can no longer be discussed and now even makes it possible to avoid discussion of any item by calling the person who disputes it a racist 3) the NAACP has turned into big brother and can actually destroy the economics of a state and all of the businesses owned by minorities in the process 4) the boycott originated due to the state's flying of the confederate flag and it has been promoted wildly in the media by adding to it the issue with Senator Wilson 5) Senator Wilson was reprimanded by the house

If you prefer a different source, here is one:
http://www.washingtoninformer.com/wi-web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2071:nnpa-pulls-convention-from-south-carolina-&catid=51:national&Itemid=114