BrianW
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She said something to the effect that a mosque should be burned down with the worshippers inside it.I agree, it is tricky. A lot of it is subjective. Who decides what is and isn’t offensive though. If you have a bit of common sense it’s pretty obvious to spot clear racism or someone inciting violence, but in some of these cases thats not clear at all.
15 months in prison for sharing a Facebook post! Is crazy. There are violent offenders who don’t get that much time.
it feels a bit like the book 1984.
In the present climate, you can see how that might be thought to be incitement. Even incitement to murder.
We all say and write stupid things sometimes. I recall suggesting that dog thieves and people who organise dog fights should be strung up. However, there was not, at that time, a gang of vigilantes offering violence to dog thieves and arrangers of dog fights. Context is all, and besides I said that the government should do the stringing up by law, not that a mob should do it.
I suppose we all need to remember not to be inflammatory. Because, unfortunately, we do not live in a quiet, rational, law-abiding age.