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I had someone steel this and change “butts” to “Christian” and weirdly enough, lengthen my skirt. Kept the flame boots, but no short skirts.

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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Saying good things and saying bad things are different actually

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but that's not the message of the comic

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I think you're missing the point. You have to take it in the context it was written in.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Care to elaborate on how it relates to my comment?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Defending free speech that says good things is different than defending free speech that is just being racist. The implication of hypocrisy that you're suggesting with your comment doesn't really work unless you view all speech as equivalent, which it self evidently isn't.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Defending free speech that says good things is different than defending free speech that is just being racist.

That's kinda the point I'm making, though. This argument is not nuanced enough, because the only standard it sets is that for something to be truly offensive, it must "offend everyone". This is an absurd and impossible standard.

The implication of hypocrisy that you’re suggesting with your comment doesn’t really work unless you view all speech as equivalent, which it self evidently isn’t.

I didn't say anything about hypocrisy. I just said that the argument presented is insufficient.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you include the context it isnt insufficient. It is also a short comic.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Short comics are notoriously not great at depicting nuanced concepts.