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I have to disagree with this.
The chap CLEARLY in his video stated he was teaching the dog the most horrible thing he could think of to annoy his girlfriend who thought the dog was the ultimate in cuteness.
He did not advocate, nor encourage actual anti-semitism, it is a joke and humor juxtaposing something cute with something horrible ..... it may that people find it in very poor taste, not funny or even extremely offensive, but it is not in of itself a hate crime because it is not displaying any actual hostility, aggression or prejudice.
However, I also don't like the fact that the far right and alt right have jumped on this case and added it to their cause as evidence of the oppression of free speech since most of the cases they talk about do involve prejudice and/or hostility.
It's much like the difference between Al Murray's Pub Landlord character or Alf Garnet in To Death do us part and the likes of Bernard Manning.
The pub landlord and Alf Garnet say and do racists and/or prejudiced things, but the real joke is that we laugh at them for their stupidity not with them in agreement of their prejudice like with Bernard Manning.
While this chap isn't remotely on a level of comedy, talent or whit with the likes of Warren Mitchel, he is still fundamentally on that side of the line ... where there comedy or joke is aimed at the ridiculousness, stupidity and vileness of fascism and in this case specifically the nazis, rather than directed at Jewish people or their other victims. |
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Author: Sonic67
26-11-2019 00:47:25
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