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>> "Defamation against private individual (including libel and slander)" What if it's against a group of individuals?
by Kye 7y ago
>> "Defamation against private individual (including libel and slander)"
What if it's against a group of individuals?
- waynecochran 7y agoDo you have specific example in mind?
- Kye 7y agoFor example: claiming gay people are pedophiles, or that trans women are men in dresses trying to sneak into bathrooms to assault people. Claims like this--and these are the tip of the iceberg--target groups of people and affect every individual within. It's like passive libel/slander that every member of the group has to contend with. It can even affect people outside the group. I don't think I know of a straight man under 30 who isn't afraid someone will think they're gay if they do the wrong thing. And more than a few cisgender women get run out of bathrooms because they present in a more masculine way.
- zbyte64 7y agoAsking the real questions.
- sam_lowry_ 7y agoLike commies in 50..60ies.
- waynecochran 7y agoPublicly denouncing a group of specific folks as communists, when they were in fact not communists I believe was illegal even in the McCarthy era (that's libel if posted and slander if spoken publicly).