INTRODUCTION TO INDYMEDIA FOR NEW VISITORS
Herbert Kornfeld | 07.01.2004 00:43
Owing to the increasing frequency with which posts are being 'hidden', i.e. deleted, from Indymedia UK, here is a helpful guide to how to fit in to the Indymedia UK gang - and avoid having your carefully created posts gobbled up by one of the most ruthlessly censored websites around.
Comments are invited - get 'em in quick before THE BOSS deletes it all!
Comments are invited - get 'em in quick before THE BOSS deletes it all!
1. Champion the rights of women and minorities, but ONLY when those rights are threatened by white European men. We mustn't judge cultures in which forcibly circumcising a woman with a broken bottle is acceptable.
2. Protect Islamic terrorists from the justice dispensed by their victims, especially if the victims are Jews.
3. All viewpoints are true, except for the ones we haven't dictated to you, in which case you are a racist.
4. At no time must anyone demonstrate even the vaguest knowledge of anything. Ranting is better than rationale.
5. Anything, however preposterous, may provide a potential basis for a conspiracy thread, esp. tap water, vapour trails.
6. Claiming 'popular' support is optional (especially if your therapist thinks it will help), but naturally it must always be imagined or exaggerated to a preposterous degree.
7. Palestine is the only important conflict 'cos it's dead exciting and you can get in the papers or on the telly or even a book deal! Other conflicts - Chinese occupation of Tibet, Syrian occupation of Lebanon, for example, are not as fashionable and can be justified simply by changing the subject to Palestine.
8. Free speech is sacrosanct, except in cases when someone isn't following the rules, in which case THEY MUST BE SILENCED!
2. Protect Islamic terrorists from the justice dispensed by their victims, especially if the victims are Jews.
3. All viewpoints are true, except for the ones we haven't dictated to you, in which case you are a racist.
4. At no time must anyone demonstrate even the vaguest knowledge of anything. Ranting is better than rationale.
5. Anything, however preposterous, may provide a potential basis for a conspiracy thread, esp. tap water, vapour trails.
6. Claiming 'popular' support is optional (especially if your therapist thinks it will help), but naturally it must always be imagined or exaggerated to a preposterous degree.
7. Palestine is the only important conflict 'cos it's dead exciting and you can get in the papers or on the telly or even a book deal! Other conflicts - Chinese occupation of Tibet, Syrian occupation of Lebanon, for example, are not as fashionable and can be justified simply by changing the subject to Palestine.
8. Free speech is sacrosanct, except in cases when someone isn't following the rules, in which case THEY MUST BE SILENCED!
Herbert Kornfeld