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We have similar tendencies in the secular world as well, see the case of a former NYT reporter who was fired for repeating the N-word when clarifying a kid's qu
by inglor_cz 4y ago
We have similar tendencies in the secular world as well, see the case of a former NYT reporter who was fired for repeating the N-word when clarifying a kid's question that used the N-word itself.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/01/media/donald-mcneil-speaks-out/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/01/media/donald-mcneil-speak...
While Islamic religious law is certainly backward, the hysteria that underlies blasphemy/taboos isn't limited to medieval legal systems.
- potamic 4y agoReminds me of this classic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jEBh1VtdT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jEBh1VtdT0
- naveen99 4y agoThere is plenty of legal music / media using it though. And it’s not illegal to consume it either.
- rhaway84773 4y agoAs much as I disagree with the actions of the Times here, there’s a massive difference between a single private entity deciding to let go of an employee based on a ridiculous justification and having a legal system based on similar ridiculous justifications.
- inglor_cz 4y agoI wasn't claiming any equality between those two, only a similar thought pattern behind them. That said, I wouldn't like to see how a hypothetical country run by the New York Times staff, and thus by proxy by the Twitter mob, would look like. It might be pretty ghastly. For all its faults, the current political system has quite a lot of checks and balances that limit arbitrary decisions and capriciousness of important players, and those limits would likely go out of the window in the new Outrage Republic.