Word: racists
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Even before the event took place, it generated heated debate. As audience entered, member of the campus Palestine Solidarity Committee Abdelnasser Rashid ’11 handed out flyers that called Eitam’s controversial politics “racist and genocidal...
...June elections for the European Parliament, the anger of these voters propelled the BNP to its greatest-ever success. The racist party won close to a million votes and two seats in the Parliament. That, in turn, earned Griffin his Question Time invitation. "Question Time is the public's chance to challenge the politicians. That is why it is so important that they should sometimes be able to hear and interrogate politicians from the relative fringes as well as from the mainstream," wrote Mark Thompson, the BBC's Director General, in an eve-of-transmission exegesis of BBC policy published...
...plotting to defile underage British girls. Griffin is in the spotlight because the BBC invited him to take part in a television debate on Oct. 22. Critics of Griffin and the BNP - and there are millions of them - argue that giving him and his party airtime simply accords his racist views a legitimacy they do not deserve. The BBC says that because the BNP recently won two seats in the European Parliament, it has a right to a platform alongside other parties. But hundreds of people plan to protest outside the BBC's television center during Thursday night's debate...
...just another politician rather than a fascist fanatic, but I think to deny him the right to speak on television would be infinitely worse in the long run," wrote media commentator Roy Greenslade in the Evening Standard. "However distasteful it is to put up with homophobic journalists and racist politicians, censorship does not remove prejudice...
...should Rush Limbaugh be deemed unfit to be an NFL owner because he's said things that some people deem racist? Sadly, the league's historical precedent does not exclude such behavior. As Sports Illustrated just pointed out, the former Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall was an open racist who kept the Redskins white, not to mention inept - now there's an accomplishment - until 1962, long after the owners grudgingly reintegrated the league in 1946. (See TIME's top 10 things to watch this NFL season...