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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Anatomy of a "non crime hate incident"
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 15:53:58 -0500
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On 12/7/2024 4:41 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 17:20:45 -0500, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>> Being a lawyer in the the UK must be like Alice finding herself in Wonderland
>>> where everything's a contradiction.
>>
>> Can't you conceive of speech as harmful as a brickbat?
> 
> So if I call you a 'stupid m*****f***er' I could go to jail?!?
> 
> After all - if you don't return the insult your feelings could be hurt
> right?
> 
> This sort of thing worries me as Canadian law is based on the British
> legal system and in the event Justin T gets re-elected (unlikely - the
> last time a sitting prime minister won a 4th term was pre-WW2) this is
> the kind of thing he might consider.

Such judgements are always subjective, but I'd think that, while "stupid 
motherfucker" might skate nowadays, "stupid kike" might well not.