Comments on: Can We Go On A Jew Killing Spree Soon?

By: Wiseguy

Wiseguy — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:07:40 +0000

That's bullshit ''unsilent majority'' fact is, muslims are the real problem here in europe

By: Unsilent Majority

Unsilent Majority — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:25:00 +0000

Perhaps if Jews weren't so obsessed with controlling everyone else's lives, and were simply content with owning 99.97% of the world's wealth, fewer people would hate them. Just a thought.

By: Jillian C. York

Jillian C. York — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:11:09 +0000

Good assessment of this; interesting to learn that it's the inclusion of another person's name that indicates hate speech in the legal sense. Even as a layperson, I agree that it "feels" different to hear someone say something that awful to someone else, rather than out into the ether (and as you know from my own blog, I tend to defend the first amendment into its outer limits). This tweet felt threatening.

Though I hate to see one person made an example of (when so many people have similar behaviors), I hope that whatever happens to her professionally or academically will serve as an example to others.

By: N.P.

N.P. — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:04:25 +0000

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.

By: @JIDF

@JIDF — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:02:29 +0000

Twitter seems to have an "anything goes" policy when it comes to certain types of speech, while Facebook/YouTube claim to have a policy, but don't do the great job in enforcing it. Perhaps it's better to have no policy than to claim have one and not enforce it, or to show subjectivity/double standards when trying to do so.

On another note, you mention hate speech against, "Jews, Muslims, Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities in the realm of social media and social networking."

While that is true, there seems to be a disproportionate amount of hatred directed against Jews than any other group. (And no, we're not just saying that because we're the "Jewish" Internet Defense Force FBI stats on hate crimes could be used to back up this claim.

By: bcuban

bcuban — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:16:49 +0000

because you are not offended does not make it protected speech. Killing and Eating dead people did not offend Jeffery Dahlmer either..

By: @EthanW87

@EthanW87 — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:09:29 +0000

She could have picked any other target, it was the first to come to mind, I normally talk about punching babies in the face. Offended meter = 0