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>or they appear to be unaware of the very many cases of people in America who lose their jobs or are arrested because they wear the wrong t-shirt or have an inn
by pionar 12y ago
>or they appear to be unaware of the very many cases of people in America who lose their jobs or are arrested because they wear the wrong t-shirt or have an innocent poster on their door.
Arrested and convicted of a crime are two different things. Do you have any evidence of that happening? I know of a Virginia teenager who was arrested last year because he wouldn't take off an NRA shirt, but first, he wasn't arrested for the shirt, he was arrested for obstruction, and second, charges were dropped.
As for European attitudes toward free speech, I don't say they're wrong for Europeans, I just think some of them are daft, like locking people up for racist remarks or offensive speech. That just turns harmless idiots into martyrs.
- DanBC 12y agoDo you have any examples of people "locked up for racist remarks" or "offensive speech"?
- Karunamon 12y agoHere's a couple from 2012: http://deadspin.com/5896709/racist-tweets-about-fabrice-muamba-get-student-56-days-in-jail http://deadspin.com/5896709/racist-tweets-about-fabrice-muam... http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/21/man-racially-abused-collymore-twitter-spared-prison http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/21/man-racial... Here's 11 people who got locked up last year: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330809/Lee-Rigby-death-11-people-UK-arrested-making-racist-anti-religious-comments-online-British-soldiers-death.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330809/Lee-Rigby-de... (daily fail, but their info appears sound) And that was just on the first page of google. Note that in all of these cases, the comments were just ugly and racist, but not threatening.