Should comedians have boundaries?

[CourageTCD]

shavenferret said:

CourageTCD said:

Yes. If your type of comedy consists of spreading hate speech, raise social suspicion against marginalized minorities and soften ideas that go against human rights, you should suffer legal consequences. There are comedians who seek to do all of that as a priority and have the laughters as an ocasional and mere consequence. I've seen a lot of people saying a bunch of crap and trying to get away with it by basicly raising a "it's a joke" sign. What a lot of people don't understand is that words aren't merely a bunch of sounds, they have the power to affect the world, specially if you have a whole audience listening to you.

But the thing of is that what is hate speech is highly subjective, especially when there is a bigger point to be made.  America, at least also has that pesky first amendment.  Sounds like you'd be considering doing away with that.  And it won't happen in my lifetime,sir. We will continue to have free speech and keep having that.  

It is subjective indeed, that's why there are judges in different courts (trial, appellate, high court) to decide if what have been said can be classified as a law violation (if you have laws that tackles prejudices, descrimination, slander, etc). And to finish things up, I'm not american, you can keep your first amendment with you.