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That's a reach. Doing explicitly offensive things as satire and being selectively quoted aren't similar.
by joshuamorton 7y ago
That's a reach.
Doing explicitly offensive things as satire and being selectively quoted aren't similar.
- 0x4477 7y agoWhy is it wrong to say explicitly offensive things and why should someone be legally punished for it? Who gets to decide what is and isn't offensive and to what degree?
- MadWombat 7y ago> Why is it wrong to say explicitly offensive things Because they are offensive > and why should someone be legally punished for it Because that is what legal systems are for. Punishing people who do things we, as a society, find objectionable > Who gets to decide what is and isn't offensive and to what degree? That is a rather general question, but generally speaking, the law makers and the legal system decide things like that. Now, mind you, personally, I support a rather radical version of freedom of expression. I think almost every kind of censorship is ultimately detrimental to society, but I am not naive enough to ask "but who gets to decide" or "but why cannot I"
- Izkata 7y agoIt wasn't satire; sharing and reporting on it removed the joke context, leading some people to infer satire and others to infer he actually held nazi beliefs. The original video started with him saying something like "my girlfriend thinks her pug is the cutest thing in the world, so I'm going to turn it into the worst thing I can think of".