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    Often it is said that freedom of speech is a two-way street. We must accept expression that we disagree with in order to have our rights maintained. In general, this is not a problem. This arrangement not only gives us a chance to express our brilliant opinions freely (Orbis), but also often gives us a lot to make fun of.  More often than not, patently offensive and derogatory speech ought to be allowed, both because it is part of the Constitutional deal, and also because it is so absurd that it isn't taken seriously anyway. On the other hand, there are some expressions that are so vulgar and so devoid of worth that they make freedom of speech almost not worth the trouble. There have been examples such as the racist manifesto of "The Bell Curve," the disgusting characterizations of African Americans in "A Birth of a Nation," and now two young girls join this illustrious group.

Prussian Blue is a white supremacist music group out of Bakersfield, California. In this sense they are far from news worthy. What makes this story so frightening is the age of the performers. They are fourteen. Not yet freshmen in high school (even though they are home schooled), Lynx and Lamb Gaede released their first album, "Fragment of the Future," which has been a smash hit in the genre (if it may be called such) of racist music. With such songs as "Aryan Man Awake," "Victory Day," "Hate for Hate," and "Weiss Weiss Weiss" ("White White White," a Nazi propaganda song), these fascist freshmen advocate racial purity, national entitlement and unconditional hate, set to soothing guitars and middle school orchestra-quality violins. Their voices as bland as the sort of racially homogenous nation they advocate, the music sounds as if it were produced by the creepy twin girls from The Shining.

But this isn't about the musical aesthetics, is it? No, it is about asking why this music exists in the first place. Listening to this music pollutes the entire notion of music to an even greater extent than George Bush pollutes the notion of liberty. Expression such as this endeavors to open up new demographics for the purveyors of white supremacist music, and tries to entice young new listeners with sex appeal mixed in to hateful dogma.

 This is truly disgusting. These girls are being used as tools by their parents to be the Olsen Twins of hate speech. It is one thing to allow grown people who have made allegedly educated decisions to express their hateful opinions publicly; it is another altogether to force misguided young people into such a position. We as a society are forced to accept hateful music. We are not forced to complicitly accept the exploitation of confused youths to promote a white supremacist agenda. This is not free speech. This is criminal. If these girls' parents, or whomever wrote these songs want to form their own nation, separate from everything that makes ours great, then good riddance.

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