@halo4rules replied to your post “Majority in Brazil’s top court to make homophobia and transphobia...”
blocking someone online cause u dont like what they say is one thing. LOCKING SOMEONE UP CAUEE U DONT LIKE WHAT THEY SAID IS EXACTLY WHAT THE NAZIS/SOVIET RUSSIA DID. Or they just killed u in the street. So yes I'm worried for the state of the world when free speech is under attack. U CANT STOP PEOPLE FROM SAYING OR THINKING. If u dont agree with what they are saying like I do then just dont listen. Otherwise it giving them the attention they want.
@halo4rules replied to your post “Majority in Brazil’s top court to make homophobia and transphobia...”
@[REDACTED BY REQUEST] 1)neither of those words are a real thing, a it nobody afraid of someone cause they gay or just an confused idiot 2)I anit some leftist, snowflake, SJW sissy that gets angry when I dont get my way. Learn to see things from a view other than your own like I have. And go UNFUCK YOURSELF. And if u looked at my blog then u should have read the header dumbass.
@infinitegrowthlover replied to your post “Majority in Brazil’s top court to make homophobia and transphobia...”
@unseen-arts "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." In other words, if people are easily offended by words and we jail them for it, that's oppression. It's complete asinine to say otherwise. I'm upset when someone tells me that America is evil, but I don't let it bother me. Because WORDS ARE NOTHING BUT SOUND. Words CAN'T hurt you.
Look, I get your concern. I truly do. But while I do believe it’s genuine, I do not think you have anything to fear from the criminalization of LGBT+phobia in Brazil. It isn’t just “words”. LGBT+s are systematically discriminated in the workplace, in adoption services, in healthcare, in house purchase, in schools, etc. We’re not talking about a random internet troll saying “lmao fags”. We’re talking about people being denied services, rights, and even lives for being who they are. LGBT+phobia is grave and deadly, a common motivator for hate crimes here, we’re quite a deadly country for these people. And I disagree when you say “words can’t hurt”. Countless psychology studies show that effects of emotional, verbal, psychological abuse are as real as of physical abuse - so when it’s abuse, it should be tackled as such. And we already have laws that fight discrimination - sexism, racism, xenophobia, and religious discrimination have been illegal in this country for decades. We have not descended into a dystopian systematic censorship because of that, and we won’t now (at least not because of that either). Same thing with Germany, for example, where nazism has been crime for, like, ever.
Freedom of speech is a pillar of our society, sure. But, since we live in a society, our freedoms end where the rights of others begin, and that also applies to freedom of speech. No one’s talking about the government chasing down dissenters and critics in order to silence and censor them. First of all, judicial responsibilization comes after what was said be said, what was done be done. Second of all, it isn’t the government itself suing people, it’s civilians who are going to sue someone for discrimination. And third, it’s not the federal government who’s going to judge and carry out sentences, it’s the civilian’s own respective local courts, with the accused person keeping their right to defense, etc. So I don’t really think this is comparable to what was done in these horrible regimes you mentioned.
This decision by our Supreme Court was way more of a final dot in the discussion of “if LGBT+ discrimination should fit our discrimination laws” and it serves to guide future sentences by other judges. No one’s giving the government any censoring power. We could talk if sentences to punctual verbal aggressions should be civil and not penal, so people don’t go to jail because of words. That’s a valid discussion to have too. But, when it comes to free speech, I do not believe we have to fear for it because of LGBT+phobia criminalization, and I hope I could show you why. And, if I could add a slightly unrelated note, if we have to fear for free speech in this current government, it’s probably going to be more for censoring LGBT+ content than for fighting LGBT+ discrimination (Russia being an extreme example of what I mean).