This isn’t the first time I’ve had to debunk this and unfortunately probably won’t be the last.
This case had nothing to do with the pug or the salute, he faced charges because he made a video where he repeatedly said “g*s the Jews” which is an explicit call to racial violence.
And while we might be able to look at that specific case and agree that it wasn’t meant seriously, as soon as you set that president any hate group will start spouting genuine calls to violence and just stick a funny dog video with it and make the argument it’s just a joke too. So we either set strict standard that makes it very hard to get away with actual calls for a second holocaust, but catches one guy just making s joke as well, or we make it so the one guy making a joke is fine, but let’s Nazis call for the death of undesirables without consequence.
There’s a good chance you’d be contacted by the police for saying it in the UK.
Someone faced criminal charges for teaching a pug to do a Nazi salute, I can definitely see the British doing this.
This isn’t the first time I’ve had to debunk this and unfortunately probably won’t be the last.
This case had nothing to do with the pug or the salute, he faced charges because he made a video where he repeatedly said “g*s the Jews” which is an explicit call to racial violence.
And while we might be able to look at that specific case and agree that it wasn’t meant seriously, as soon as you set that president any hate group will start spouting genuine calls to violence and just stick a funny dog video with it and make the argument it’s just a joke too. So we either set strict standard that makes it very hard to get away with actual calls for a second holocaust, but catches one guy just making s joke as well, or we make it so the one guy making a joke is fine, but let’s Nazis call for the death of undesirables without consequence.
Well said. I never saw it that way before.
In the interests of being specific, that was Scotland, which operates a separate legal system from England and Wales.