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Talbot - //Agree or not I find it puzzling your thoughts on who we should listen to and who we shouldn't.
Most people will know Choudary from the TV.
What links them all is they all spout rubbish but you treat them differently.
andy on Katie Hopkins.
shallow, self-obsessed, over-opinionated, attention-seeking idiot.
If she was ignored, as she should be, she would vanish overnight, but we do get the press we deserve.
andy on White Dee.
Why on earth would anyone take a moment's notice of this woman's opinion on just about anything?
andy on Hate Preacher Choudary.
If Mr Choudry is engaged in a properly organised and managed debate, it will be an opportunity to learn something about the reasons for his hatred of Western culture, and maybe to have him listen to some opposing views, which may even impact on his own position. //
The difference - which you appear to need pointing out to you is this -
If this presenter, or White Dee, or Katie Hopkins, had the power to actually influence people to go out and murder innocent people, then I would suggest that we needed to pay them attention, and engage with them in an effort to find out what motivates their hatred, and try to stop it.
They don’t have that power, Mr Choudary does.
If the gulf between them which represents uneducated thought, professional nastiness, and unpleasant personal opinions on the one hand, and the potential to encourage murder and destruction on the other really needs to be pointed out to you, then I am happy to be of service.