• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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      Someone faced criminal charges for teaching a pug to do a Nazi salute, I can definitely see the British doing this.

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        This isn’t the first time I’ve had to debunk this and unfortunately probably won’t be the last.

        This case had nothing to do with the pug or the salute, he faced charges because he made a video where he repeatedly said “g*s the Jews” which is an explicit call to racial violence.

        And while we might be able to look at that specific case and agree that it wasn’t meant seriously, as soon as you set that president any hate group will start spouting genuine calls to violence and just stick a funny dog video with it and make the argument it’s just a joke too. So we either set strict standard that makes it very hard to get away with actual calls for a second holocaust, but catches one guy just making s joke as well, or we make it so the one guy making a joke is fine, but let’s Nazis call for the death of undesirables without consequence.

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        1 year ago

        In the interests of being specific, that was Scotland, which operates a separate legal system from England and Wales.

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    ‘‘Down to the newest baby’’? That’s the most inflammatory statement I’ve ever heard. Is there anything more evill?

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      Seriously. I really don’t get the kind of mental contortion necessary to actually believe the kind of nonsense she is conveying.

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    Not in the eu except if youre in germany. I live in sweden and while the politicians dont support palestine, on the streets theres huge support.

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    This is pretty bad, but you wouldn’t be arrested for saying it in either Australia or NZ.

    The truth is bad enough, no need to make shit up.

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    Oh yeah I believe they use babies as meat shields and toss them around as decoys. Yep, that sounds like what people do during war, Abby.

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    I just blocked all content that covers those topics, my timeline is pure & has only content I want

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        “When they came for the Palestinians, I did not speak out, because I had blocked that content.”

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      Oh my god, I was just wondering about that. Thanks for letting us know!

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      I wish I could do that too. But that feels too much like looking away. But I don’t read every post that comes in.