potato_hamster said:
BlkPaladin said:
This is a response of the quoted post and the above post by potato_hamster. This will be the last time I address this, sorry for being off topic.
Even in the US "free speech" has limits. And saying something is a joke when you are attacking a person on their race, creed, sexual orintation doesn't make it any less of an attack, or against the law in the US; also if free speech was the end all of everything, laws wouldn't be needed for slander or liable. For example sexual harrasment, the first thing that comes out of people mouths when charges are levied against them, 'it was only a joke. Can't they take a joke.' I have heard this so many times it makes me sick. My place has fired people because they thought they were being a buddy, and making the place happier by using sexual harrassment as a "joke". Unfortantly it's at the cost of a person when talk like this happens. IT ISN'T A JOKE, a joke I can handle, attacking a person's inheriant rights is a gross attack on another person which is protected by the bill or rights in the US and the UN Universal Declaration of human rights elsewhere, in member nations. And the rights of a person laid out in the bill of right super-ceedes the ammendments that were added later.
Yes you have free speech and can say what ever you want. But when that speech impeads another person's inherient rights, the person who is "joking" is in the wrong. That is why every time I call the cops for this, it always ends up with the "joking" person paying a fine even when they fight it. Because even in America you DONT have the right to attack another person's rights.
And now I will get off my soap box.
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But again,
You do not have a right to not be offended. Period. Stop acting like you do. Your rights are not being infringed upon.
Sexual Harassment is a crime. Making a light hearted joke about someone's religion is not. Learn the difference.
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He is also saying its up to him to decide when something is an atack or a joke. Wich is not how it works. The thing is that if he calls the cops for something as stupid as that, the one getting a ticket wwould be him. There is a law that penalizes people waisting 911's time. He would also be getting fired for ringing the cops into the work place for something so trivial and not go to HR.
But yea, we are derailing.
