pragmakist

It's a very apt demonstration of "non-hateful" hate-speech.

Under Danish law, if I make a happening for the purpose of making the local stamp collectors association, or anyone lose their collective cool and attack me, I will be dragged away and fined for disturbing the peace.

I really see no reason why stamp collectors should be differently protected than Muslims.

I would agree, however, that both stamp collectors and Muslims should be required to keep their cool, and that we should not enjoy any such protections against mere insult.

On the other hand this guy does his best to shove the burning stamps up the noses of the collectors, ...

And authorities in Muslim countries abuse this to divert attention from their own abuses.

So yeah, I don't know, it's complicated.

Ah, but it isn't really about religion.

It's a simple question of who can 'othered'? Who can be designated as victims?

So it's not other religious groups, but specifically muslims.

It should be noted that the muslim idea of what the Koran is seems to put it on a significantly higher pidestal than where Christains place the Bible.

Higher even than what the more unhinged fringes of the sola scriptura crowd does.

And here in Denmark there's a double standard where behaviour, that would result in being dragged away and fined if you insulted any other group, is just fine as long as you target muslims.

All of which is not to say that Erdogan isn't also an asshole.

But then Erdogan is not quite all muslims.

Why do I get the impression that most of the commenters here haven't noticed that the wider fediverse, and of course kbin.social, are made as an attempt to solve this exact problem.

You're here because we're trying to fix this!

I'd put my money on spritely.institute rather than the current system, but whatever; we are trying!

Or maybe your highschool really had that high level equipment?

You're joking, but the first programming "language" I learned was z80 machinecode in hexadecimal.

It doesn't matter what comes after "but", but everything that comes before is a lie

I usually replace my phone when it becomes impossible to both use the manufacturers version of Android and maintain the illusion that it is my property.

Tends to be every 3 or 4 years.

Can we be totally honest here and just state what the fear is?

If slaves could vote they'd vote for freedom.

There's a hole the size of a railroad junction in the 13nd amendment.

Ford was innovative because he used the scientific method to find out how long the work-week should be from a factory-owners perspective.
And then he set it to that.
If you're a cog in a wheel in a factory that is still the ideal work-week from your owners perspective, sorry.

Wait, what? No!

Yeah, well, I'm sorry, but yes viewing the current Merkins as stupidly violent savages is a thing on this side of the Atlantic.

We Europeans on the other hand would never attack someone without reason.

We've always had reasons, usually some variation of wanting their possesion for ourselves.

And warning: This post contains sarcasm.