I generally don't like hate speech designations, though this song is scary
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56 sats \ 10 replies \ @south_korea_ln 31 Mar
From here:
This song is, of course, in very bad taste. I've sung many songs in very bad taste. Yet, they were just songs.
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110 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 OP 31 Mar
I have also sung many songs in bad taste. I don't recall one that included the whole murder thing.
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36 sats \ 4 replies \ @south_korea_ln 31 Mar
Not defending the song, for sure. It is in very bad taste.
But the way this is being politicized in the US at this point feels a bit exaggerated.
The songs I sang included calls for rape, murder, etc. No one singing them was actually thinking of raping or murdering anyone. In our minds, it was just some folklore. I'm not sure I'd still sing them now.
All this to say I can imagine a world where that song does not equate an actual call for violence in the mind of the people singing it. I do not know the story; I only know what I read from your link and the link I shared, so this may be a completely different context.
Just adding this last quote for additional context. The true story is probably that for some people, the song is a call for violence, while for others, it isn't. No way for me to know the proportion.
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255 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 31 Mar
I see your point. We all come from different cultures. In the US I think there were lynching songs in the south. I agree that it's a propaganda tool. I still question whether it would be written off as an exaggeration if the minority in question was not white. I also wonder how the perception might be different without Elon involvement.
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 31 Mar
Fair question.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Mar
There is a double standard. It would be hate speech if it was kill the blacks vs kill the boer
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 31 Mar
Seriously? I honestly can't think of anything similar in the US. What kinds of songs were these?
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44 sats \ 3 replies \ @petertodd 31 Mar
Nonsense. I've personally met quite a few white South Africa farmers who had to leave South Africa because the violence against them was getting too dangerous. White farmers are specifically targeted, with intent to force them as a group out of South Africa.
Textbook genocidal activity.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Mar
https://t.me/mdelabroc/86215
President Trump is going to sign an EO to save the Afrikaan hotties
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @petertodd 31 Mar
Among the South Africans I'm talking about in that situation were in fact two really hot sisters I met at a climbing gym many years ago; their parents chose to sell their farm and start over in Canada.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Mar
Aha!
I knew it!
Lol
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 1 Apr
Let's be honest, it's because they're whites...
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46 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 31 Mar
IMO I don't care about words. It's action and violence that's the problem. When the state has a monopoly on violence and at the same time denies the people their right to defend themselves and their property... that is the problem.
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46 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 31 Mar
I agree with ya. Freedom of speech is a huge thing but there has to be a line and boy does that flirt with it. Kinda like from the River to the Sea. History behind that phrase is horrific and the kids who say it and don’t understand give me a headache
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @kurszusz 31 Mar
This is what I call "freedom of speech"...
Congratulations South Africa :(
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Mar
Kill the black is not hate speech by the court’s reasoning
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