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A court in Switzerland sentenced a writer and commentator to 60 days in jail for calling a journalist a "fat lesbian," and the decision is being lauded by LGBTQ+ groups.
On Monday, French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, was sentenced by the Lausanne court for the crimes of defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred after he criticized Catherine Macherel, a journalist for Swiss newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 Heures, in a Facebook video two years ago.
"This court decision is an important moment for justice and rights of LGBTQI people in Switzerland," said Murial Waeger, co-director of a lesbian activist group. "The conviction of Alain Soral is a strong signal that homophobic hatred cannot be tolerated in our society."
I guess they don't have the First amendment Freedom of Speech that we enjoy?
If the Left gets their way this kind of nonsense will be here. I don't think it is nice to call someone names but he was being rather specific here and it was the Truth. I guess the truth hurts sometimes.
I guess they don't have the First amendment Freedom of Speech that we enjoy?
If the Left gets their way this kind of nonsense will be here. I don't think it is nice to call someone names but he was being rather specific here and it was the Truth. I guess the truth hurts sometimes.
Canada and Europe don't have free speech. There is a very good reason for the first amendment. There is a reason we have individual rights and not group rights.
The left won't like it when speech laws get applied against them. But they are ignorant of history. Probably think the McCarthy era refers to Kevin's time as speaker.
So much for Switzerland being a bastion of liberty.
Can you call a fat white heterosexual male, a fat man? Is it characterizing anyone publicly with the adjective "fat" the thing that must be banned and the perps punished?
Which eventually seep to the US. You are looking at our future.
We're not there yet. We're at the stage of just firing people for using the wrong words.
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