Auto-censorship and compromising ones freedom of speech and expression in art.

[Lafiel]

setsunatenshi said:

Lafiel said:

how about instead of clearly surreal fiction we discuss a real case

in 1981 the KKK's "fiery cross" magazine featured a cartoony drawing of a black man being hanged, just days later Klansmen kidnapped and killed a young black man hanging his corpse in the neighborhood afterwards

that drawing was then used as evidence the men acted on an implicit order of the KKK itself instead of entirely seperated from the organization, so the KKK had to pay enormous fines bankrupting it and making it less relevant since

what's your take on this, should the KKK have be spared from the consequences in this case as they were only printing art?

 

So because a judge (or juri?) decided that we should agree with the decision?

the KKK pieces of shit have plenty of real problems they could probably go chase them for, printing distasteful artwork is not one of those. inciting violence in itself is a crime in most western states though.

so without many details provided on this case, yeah the people who did the action should suffer the consequences.

when muslim bombers kill people, do we jail their religious leaders? i does say in their book to kill infidels, so....

In that particular case one of the murderers was sentenced to death, the other one confessed > life in prision, but in a later trial the jury decided to also hold the organization itself responsible as they saw a connection with afaik the perpetrators themselves testifying they felt urged on by the drawing/magazine and the temporal proximity of the publishing of said drawing and the murder/act of terrorism.

That's the thing, art can and did incite violence, which is why in my opinion there can't be complete freedom from consequences for any kind of art

And atleast in my country we do prosecute religious leaders that use religious verses to incite violence. A "kill the gays" "religious liberties" convention like Ted Cruz attended in Nov 2015 would be impossible to get a permit for over here.