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In reply to the discussion: Jewish Teens Birthday Ruined As Friends Make Swastika Cupcakes [View all]Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)42. Freedom of speech was meant to allow the powerless to challenge the powerful.
When hate speech is afforded the protection of freedom of speech then being a Nazi becomes just another opinion, no different from what sports team one supports. It's pernicious and growing, it needs to be nipped in the bud. Back in the 1970s racist jokes were really funny too.
This is not another opinion, it's a hate crime and it needs to be treated as such before it escalates into something far worse.
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Jewish Teens Birthday Ruined As Friends Make Swastika Cupcakes [View all]
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
OP
I just went to the halloween costume in blackface. I thought it was funny
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#19
No. These 14 year old girls need to be beaten with some heavy mining equipment
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#4
Because physical violence against children making distasteful jokes is teaching?
DRoseDARs
Nov 2016
#5
I've been victimized by anti-Semetism my entire life. Get off your high horse
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#6
IT did when I fought back. I stopped getting victimized and lived in peace.
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#13
This is a pair of teenage girls, at a birthday party they were invited to as friends, with cupcakes.
DRoseDARs
Nov 2016
#14
And I'm a straight non-Christian Jew married to a foreign. Your acceptance of bigotry doesn't
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#20
You said it was a distasteful joke. Okay. . .let's start talking homophobic jokes here
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#25
I've said my piece, you've said yours. Others can decide. I will be blocking you.
DRoseDARs
Nov 2016
#26
tacit messages of incinerating one's friend - is a bit stronger than 'distasteful jokes'
salin
Nov 2016
#44
Nope. Hyperboles maybe, but I apologize for nothing. Being victimized by bigots my entire life
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#36
I got the same treatment when I was a teenager. I had people on the street threatening to beat me
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#39
Because YOU were beaten you believe it is appropriate for others to be beaten as well?
MADem
Nov 2016
#50
One cupcake is one too many, Mom! Stop raising your Jewish kid to accept this shit.
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#15
I don't know.. I have mixed feelings about this. Sometimes young teens are trying out
secondwind
Nov 2016
#21
exactly, there is an acceptance of this type of stuff with those who complain being seen as the
JI7
Nov 2016
#30
Interesting lists. All the countries that mostly deny the holocaust ...
JustABozoOnThisBus
Nov 2016
#67
Welcome to the new "normal" ... where hatred, bigotry and ignorance are embraced
etherealtruth
Nov 2016
#51