shavenferret said:
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. |
It typically takes years for a comedian to get big enough to even earn a paltry living. Spitballing inaccurate numbers here, but out of the 10s of thousands of stand-up comedians, what, maybe 200 make the money needed to be able to fend of litigation ... You want to talk about punching down see how easily the government can punch down on a poor citizen trying to defend themselves in court.
