What, no-one thought of Googling for ‘turner diaries’, which leads to page which contains the Turner Diaries in an on-line form?
This makes it dificult for me to be quite as estatic as some of you seem to be about this guy’s death, although I am greatful that he has ceased being a spreader of hatred.
I don’t believe that he died. I think that Satan just “called him home”.
Isn’t that self-evident? Only inferior people are supremacists.
Sua
No problem Kyla. I was simply curious. The book physically disgusts me too, but then I live in Topeka, Kansas, home of Fred Phelps, and thus have developed a thick skin and a high gross-out threshold. When you have heard a little old lady(who was wearing a red skirt in honor of the festival of Pentecost) being told the red color hides the blood pouring out of her rectum, nothing much suprises you. He once personally called *me[/] a “church whore” This was due to the fact he saw me in attendance at one church and helping supposrt another by holding signs countering Freds’ message. The epithet meant “that I didn’t know where I wanted to do my spiritual fornicating”. And Kantalooppi, I did read it online, because like Kyla. I didn’t want any of my money to go to Pierce(who did use the pen-name Andrew McDonald).
Preview, always preview, and make sure my italics are properly marked.
Unclebeer, if you were a woman, I’d ask you to dance.
Gee, Sofa King, I hope you just posted in the wrong thread.
(Otherwise, it would appear that you have been imbibing a bit of something, yourself.)
Just 'cause he ain’t here yet doesn’t mean I didn’t call him first. Back off, tomndebb, you mink!
Beverly Eads, owner of the Country Roads Cafe, said Pierce was a frequent customer. She described him as a smart man who kept to himself. “When anyone dies, it’s a shame, but it’s too bad he didn’t feel the same way,” she said.
What a wonderful woman. Let’s take her as an example.
Should I read racist writings to know my enemy? i really don’t want to, but I will if it will improve the universe (I am deliberately setting my standards quite high.)
“We had this electric moment when you said to me, ‘Why do you have to be gay?’ and I said to you, ‘Me? Why do you have to be a woman?’”
- Nick, in It’s My Party
Excuse me, but since the SDMB search engine is utterly fucked, I submit to recent memory that I promised the good Uncle that I would bow to his irrational wish that people should no longer state their personal desires to see annoying public figures die.
This appears to offend him personally, and as I stated another thread which I can no longer find, I promised to defer to his opinion in my capacity as a cool dude, but not as a matter of policy.
Therefore, if Unclebeer wants to dance on this bastard’s grave, I get the first dance. And I’ve got a rose in my teeth, too.
I think it’s because the truly superior people are smart enough to realize that it’s not their race that’s superior, it’s just themselves. That’s how I think, at least.
As a strong opponent of the death penalty, I cannot bring myself to experience glee at anyone’s death. I was driving through Terre Haute last year the day before the execution of the man The Turner Diaries inspired to bomb a federal building in Oklahoma. I thought about the fact that someone was going to die tomorrow right there, and instead of trying to stop it the government was bringing it about. I felt the same way about his death penalty as any other, and I feel the same way about this Pierce fellow’s death as any other, with a caveat.
I suppose that with some deaths we have a feeling that the death has prevented contributions to our own lives that would have followed from the deceased. I felt that way about Phil Hartman and Chris Farley, and certainly not about this Pierce guy. Still, there’s a level on which all deaths should be lamented. There is a spark of life, now extinguished. If we think of a death only in how it affects us who remain on Earth, we belittle life.
I bet this Pierce fellow cheered when MLK was killed because he thought the death would make life better for him and people whose opinions he agreed with. How is it any better now that we cheer Pierce’s death because we think his death makes life better for us and people whose opinions we agree with?
Because he’s wrong and we’re right. It’s honestly that simple.
Moral relativism is all well and good but Pierce’s views are observably, tangibly evil and it is a good thing that he’s dead, it will continue to be a good thing when more people of his ilk die and more and more of their descendants realise the hateful drivel they were tought as children was wrong.
It is always good when there is one less evil person in the world, whether because they died or because they learned the error of their ways.
Hear hear, grendel.
I’m uncertain what the legal status of The Nuremberg Files is now: would it be illegal to put up a web page listing Pierce, Phelps, and every other hateful asshole we can think of, and then crossing off Pierce? We could title the page “DING DONG The Witch Is Dead!”
Rex, here’s the thing. I’m Jewish. This asshole wanted me dead. He considers me an enemy. He pushed an agenda to reinstate Concentration Camps for “my kind”.
There’s nothing wrong with being joyful and relieved that an enemy who wants you dead is no longer around to try to hurt you.
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I’m not glad he’s dead for his sake, I’m glad he’s dead for mine and my family’s, if that makes sense.
Fenris
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Oh my G-d, **Fenris, ** I hadn’t heard that Pierce wrote another book!