I wonder if this should be a thread, or if you guys would just piss and moan because it doesn't fit your agenda?
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...r-sings-i-f-france-i-burn-france-music-video/
"A
previous song by the rapper, which was deleted from YouTube, contained lyrics such as: “I enter day care centres and kill white babies. Catch them quickly and hang their parents. Spread them apart to pass the time, to entertain black children of all ages young and old.”"
Some how posters here would blame Trump.
The fellow is on trial. The issue surely is that in the US putting him on trial for that would surely be seen as violating 'free speech'?
Personally I am happier with the European approach on the whole, maybe for no better reason than it's what I'm used to, but I don't deny it's a really awkward issue, because the line between 'incitement to hatred' and satire or comment or art or humour is a difficult one to judge. He is defending this on the grounds that it's an inverted reference to the film American History X. I don't think I buy that, but it comes down to aesthetics - is the 'art' sympathizing with the perpetrator or making a larger statement or something else? Seems a hard thing for a court to adjudicate.
When, ages ago, a bunch of Islamist protestors staged a public demonstration with placards saying things like 'behead those who insult Islam' and 'Islam will dominate the world' (I think it was about the Danish cartoons) right-wingers I encountered on-line, for years afterwards, would invoke it as an example of a 'double standard', asking "how come they were allowed to do that?". When in fact they were all prosecuted and given significant jail time, an outcome which the conservatives who kept referring to them seemed to have somehow missed.
While I felt contempt for those protestors (I believe there was something psychologically revealing about that word 'dominate', if you ask me it says something about the gender politics involved - can't help but notice how many Islamists and angry white men killers alike have histories of domestic violence) I actually thought their sentences were harsh at the time, given how short sentences can be here for physical violence. They got made an example of.
Anyway - do you agree with the American stance on free-speech or not? You seem ambivalent.