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Free speech must be protected, and it is certainly legal to tell a joke about non-identified disabled child. But he was targeting one specific kid, so I am not
by greyman 10y ago
Free speech must be protected, and it is certainly legal to tell a joke about non-identified disabled child. But he was targeting one specific kid, so I am not sure if he didn't infringe upon his human rights. Maybe he really did.
- elthran 10y agoWhich human right would that be? The right not to be made fun of?
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoThe right to dignity, presumably?
- fluxquanta 10y agoIt wasn't just some random child -- it was a public figure. Where do we draw the line?
- greyman 10y agoYes, that's the point, he rather brutally insulted one specific disabled kid. I find it to be different from just telling a joke about a politician, for example. Can you publicly insult someone, by using a form of joke? I don't know, either. But the title sounds as if he just "told a joke" - that's misleading.
- fluxquanta 10y agoRemember Susan Boyle from a few years ago? The talent show star with the great voice who perhaps wasn't the most attractive woman in the world? Hundreds (probably thousands) of comedians have jokes commenting on her perceived ugliness. Was that hate speech? Should they all be punished for it?
- mywittyname 10y agoUnless what he said resulted in direct abuses of the person from other people, I can't think of what he could say about a person that could possibly constitute a human rights violation.
- DanBC 10y agoSingling out the child wasn't in the child's best interests. There's article 16, which is the right to privacy; article 19 which is about protection from harm. Perhaps someone can find the court documents so we can see which human right they say was being violated.