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You can tell them they are doing a shameful job or that you disagree with their actions or whatever. You just can't _insult_ them like a 6 year old on a playgr
by maest 7mo ago
You can tell them they are doing a shameful job or that you disagree with their actions or whatever.
You just can't _insult_ them like a 6 year old on a playground. Why is the ability to do so valuable to you?
- malcolmgreaves 7mo agoThe first thing you described is an insult.
- maest 7mo agoNo, an insult implies insolence, rudeness, condescension, insensitivity. You can communicate a dim view of someone without being rude.
- Shocka1 7mo ago> You can communicate a dim view of someone without being rude. I would agree in theory, but whom is the judge of whether communicating that dim view is an insult or not?
- eudamoniac 7mo agoIt is viscerally against my cultural upbringing for the government to make illegal a verbal insult, it seems like an incredible overreach. I'm genuinely culture shocked hearing this. I'd be no more shocked hearing that it's illegal to dye one's hair.
- maest 7mo agoFyi, insults are illegal in the US, under certain conditions, under the fighting words doctrine.
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