2y ago

Brazil high court rules homophobia punishable by prison

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The title is click bait. It’s not homophobia it’s homophobic slurs that are being made a crime.
- Is this gonna be like that one Canadian bill that Kermit the Frog was upset about, where it's the use of slurs as a form of harassment that's been made a crime?
  
  Wasn't that one about FORCING you to say whatever pronouns the person wants instead of just not allowing you to use bad words?
- Okay, but is this still good news or not?
- Even so. Seems excessive. Is one not allowed to be a rude ass?
  
  You're allowed to be a rude ass. You're not allowed to harass.
  
  I guess you have a point in that you can do worse than a homophobic slur and get away with it. It’s like job discrimination laws, you can still discriminate ugly people which is just as bad as discrimination of a protected class.
  I don’t have a good answer, if it’s any consolation they can be just as vile or more so long as they don’t use homophobic slurs.
Progressive Brazil? Dayum
Yet their politicians have no problem bending over for corporations.
Good to see. While our conservatives in the USA wanna try: https://lemmy.ml/post/3930440
Nice to see the pendulum swing to an opposite extreme from Bolsanaro... Creating laws to make certain kinds of speech punishable by law certainly won't blow up in the progressive camp's face once another right-wing demagogue is elected, no sir.
- Ohh stfu hate speech has always been punishable by law and a demagogue will do whatever they want. Precedent doesn't matter. "You better not strike back or the bully might do something in the future" is the cry of cowards and centrists.
  
  Yes, clearly believing that hearing certain words and phrases is so injurious to human wellbeing that their use needs to be criminalized is the position of the utmost resilience and bravery. How silly of me. These sorts of wokescold laws contribute effectively nothing to the material wellbeing of any kind of marginalized group, and if you honestly believe that there won't be political blowback from this, I think you're out of touch with the general public. Even if the law itself is toothless and cannot be applied maliciously by the other side, the right wing media is going to make hay out of it, riling up millions of blue collar, conservative voters against the perceived excesses of Lula's administration. It blows a lot of a new and somewhat fragile administration's political capital for effectively no material benefit.

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