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Jo Brand - Hate Speech vs Free Speech


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33 minutes ago, beefface said:

How dare you! This woman strode like a flame haired colossus across the landscape of 70’s and 80’s light entertainment. 

Apart from striding across the landscape (stage) was she funny.

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7 hours ago, Robin-H said:

I have no idea how you've managed to extrapolate that from my posts. I think that takes slippery slope to the extreme! WiseOwl has managed to correctly deduce my point. I'm not commenting on what the punishment is (but if you care to read my posts you'll see I said I don't think there should be a punishment) - I was commenting on the current unfair inequality in the consequences.  

The point is you aren’t thinking about it yet. But the fact you are discussing the fairness of and disparity in punishment/consequences puts you at the beginning of a very dark path. What if you don’t agree with the outcomes in these cases again and again....

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31 minutes ago, I1L2T3 said:

The point is you aren’t thinking about it yet. But the fact you are discussing the fairness of and disparity in punishment/consequences puts you at the beginning of a very dark path. What if you don’t agree with the outcomes in these cases again and again....

I honestly have no idea what point you're making. 

 

Wanting fairness in the way people are treated is totalitarian...? right... 

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12 hours ago, WiseOwl182 said:

So it's the target that matters rather than the joke? Presumably the BBC would be ok for people to joke about attacks on left wing politicians too then. What about a racist joke about a politician? Would that be worse than a joke about permanently disfiguring and potentially killing one? Who makes these ground rules? 

Context.

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On ‎15‎/‎06‎/‎2019 at 12:53, Pettytom said:

Is this the same Marti Caine who specialised in racist jokes?

 

Give me Jo Brand any day. Caine’s act was  often revolting

Almost every comedian in the 70s made what would now be regarded as racist jokes, you can include comedians like Charlie Williams and later Lenny Henry too, get some perspective !

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