JuliusHackebeil said:
the-pi-guy said:
Conservatives sure do love their fan fiction. Tell us about the one where the imaginary lib got red in the face when someone said Merry Christmas to him! Jumpin said:
Jimmy Carr has plenty of jokes about the Holocaust. Jojo Rabbit is filled with anti-Semitic jokes. A ban on Holocaust humour would be a ban on that comedian and that film. Jimmy Carr was attacked (cancelled, if you will) by a horde of angry righteous crusaders. A comedian who leans dark and satirical and the joke was on a special called “His dark material” which came out in late 2021 - but the cancel-mob didn’t get around to clipping and cancelling him for several months afterwards. Tell me, what harm did his Holocaust joke do? Or any of his Holocaust jokes do? Anyway, Jimmy Carr has a response for the next time he gets cancelled: |
You've completely misunderstood what I'm saying. Comedians can make jokes about the Holocaust, about gay people, about trans people, about black people, etc. I have even posted a bit about black churches in this very thread. The key is, are they actually telling jokes, or are they spreading thinly veiled hate speech. |
But who is to decide what is a joke and what is thinly veiled hate speech? If you give that freedom to the government, they will decide for you. And you are bound to hate one of their decisions eventually. |
Prosecuting that would become the biggest headache that America has ever had. The very implementation of this idea would become politicized, and endlessly argued over by our high price court system. The idea of nuance would have to come into play with regards as to whether a remark was indeed hate speech or not, and and appealled when a bad result happens. Plus, comedians as a whole, are very unconscientous people. That's why they are funny though, with the whole making fun of others and situations. So they probably have more hate speech than the rest of us because they are assholes, and even then, I still support Comedy and freedom. Prosecuting hate speech would bankrupt America and I won't stand for it. I want us to pay for things that matter like schools, parks, highways, social security, etc rather than a salve for someone's hurt feelings.
