[Ammi]

Originally Posted by lostalex

I had some skinhead friends when i was in high school. Most of the time they never talked about their racist views so it wasn't a problem. When they did say something racist i'd just explain why i disagreed with them, and we had some decent discussions about it. It wasn't a really big deal.

They were never violent towards black people or anything. If they were like attacking black people physically or harassing black people then i wouldn't be friends with them, but they were never like that. they were always respectful to black people from what i saw.

My best friend is black, and she would hang out with them too, they were never rude to her or anything. If they treated her badly then we wouldn't hang out with them any more obviously, but they were always cool with her.

I also hung with people who made homophobic comments and homophobic jokes sometimes, but i never felt like i was being harassed or discriminated against, so i dunno.

Aslong as people are being cool and not hurting other people i'm pretty tolerant. I'll still make my views known, and we can have debates or discussions. I'll hang out with anyone as long as they aren't hurting anyone or being cruel.

..just out of interest and off topic Alex..(and I'll read your reply later because I have to go to work now..)....with the friends that made the homophobic comments..?...did you feel as though knowing you made them rethink what they said/thought at all...just that I think that's a good thing to kind of re-educate people with extreme views rather than attack them etc..I don't mean physically attack lol..you know what I mean....