• Collision Resistance@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things. One of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority, its indispensable.

      • Christopher Hitchens
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    1 year ago

    A ban on burning a copy of a holy book is dumb, but some international Muslims keep taking the bait and racists aren’t going to stop baiting them, so this might actually be the best solution.

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      The best solution would be to apply existing hate speech laws to public gatherings dedicated to publicly “hating” people of a religion or some other minority e.g. LGBT or something else.