News Brazil high court rules that homophobia is now punishable by prison. (1 Viewer)

[Selfmate]

No no no, I finished eating my lunch in study hall.

sorry all jokes aside I'm totally confused - did you have "class class" or not? lol

 

[Sooyaabean]

sorry all jokes aside I'm totally confused - did you have "class class" or not? lol

No study hall over here is just a period where you can do your homework that ends up 90% of the time as an extra break

 

[Selfmate]

No study hall over here is just a period where you can do your homework that ends up 90% of the time as an extra break

gotcha sorry we don't have that in australia so i was a bit confused

 

[Sooyaabean]

gotcha sorry we don't have that in australia so i was a bit confused

It's okay

 

[ani07]

wow, thats great

 

[Sooyaabean]

So . . . is literally everyone just ignoring me now? That's cool, I guess.

Continues to ignore selfmate

 

[Abeamus]

Here's the problem with this. What swings one way, can invariably swing the other to the same or greater extreme. Not to mention how do you legally define homophobia? Speech in all it's forms must remain free. Even when it hurts.

Freedom of speech has never been about being able to say whatever you want without consequence in cases where it's harmful speech with the biggest example being holocaust denial but even as far back as 1859 people were arguing for total freedom of speech "In On Liberty (1859), John Stuart Mill argued that "...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered"

 

[StirFriedPanda]

So . . . is literally everyone just ignoring me now? That's cool, I guess.

Did you say something?

 

[Sooyaabean]

Big brain energy.

Why did you change your name are you okay?

 

[lexus]

Down with the homophobes

 

[HelloGoodbyeDie]

Always a +

 

[doll]

this feels like a little much tbh
it honestly depends on the severity of the homophobia in question

 

[raymondchouku]

Can we get contextual ideas here, because we're throwing around homophobia without even expressing what would be actionable.

1. Homophobia is calling someone a f****t. This is obvious.
2. However, would the members of the thread say being against same-sex marriage homophobic.
3. Is it homophobic to say all homosexuals will burn in hell? Most would say yes.

Forget the article for a second. What would be considered hate speech. I heard someone say that the LGBT community should be placed behind an electric fence. The people that would agree with this are a loud minority. However, would that be considered hate speech and if so should they be imprisoned for this speech. Should that person be arrested. Would that change anything other than people with that mindset feeling like they are being persecuted and develop a further view that they are in the right.

Listen, I have been called a f****t on multiple occasions; heard people use harmful myths about the origin of HIV; and even heard people relay the common stereotype about gay men being sluts when they [the chick saying it] was really whorish herself. The line I see this at is arrests for those propagating stereotypes that influence violence against gay people.