This isn’t the first time I’ve had to debunk this and unfortunately probably won’t be the last.
This case had nothing to do with the pug or the salute, he faced charges because he made a video where he repeatedly said “g*s the Jews” which is an explicit call to racial violence.
And while we might be able to look at that specific case and agree that it wasn’t meant seriously, as soon as you set that president any hate group will start spouting genuine calls to violence and just stick a funny dog video with it and make the argument it’s just a joke too. So we either set strict standard that makes it very hard to get away with actual calls for a second holocaust, but catches one guy just making s joke as well, or we make it so the one guy making a joke is fine, but let’s Nazis call for the death of undesirables without consequence.
This isn’t the first time I’ve had to debunk this and unfortunately probably won’t be the last.
This case had nothing to do with the pug or the salute, he faced charges because he made a video where he repeatedly said “g*s the Jews” which is an explicit call to racial violence.
And while we might be able to look at that specific case and agree that it wasn’t meant seriously, as soon as you set that president any hate group will start spouting genuine calls to violence and just stick a funny dog video with it and make the argument it’s just a joke too. So we either set strict standard that makes it very hard to get away with actual calls for a second holocaust, but catches one guy just making s joke as well, or we make it so the one guy making a joke is fine, but let’s Nazis call for the death of undesirables without consequence.
Well said. I never saw it that way before.