• Soup@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    If people weren’t so bad about seeing shitty things and then repeating them anyway then I’d probably agree with you more. It’s also not a freedom of speech thing since hatespeech(which includes slurs) is not protected in most places and it’s weird of you to bring it up at all.

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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      10 days ago

      Quoting hate speech without censoring in order to denounce it is not a bad thing. Here’s an example of the biggest French newspaper having the literal n-word* in the title of an article. They are not being hateful, they are quoting a chant by black protesters who used this word both ironically and in reference to a famous black French poet, to protest racist remarks by a higher-up at LVMH. Absolutely no one was offended by this article, because the newspaper isn’t actually racist ; it’s a quote.

      * I’m saying “n-word” instead of the full word, as I don’t want m-words to ban me because they do not understand context.

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        10 days ago

        That’s because French are more revolutionary than Americans. Protests and revolutions seems to be their annual holidays.