Brickbat: No True Scot

A Scottish court has fined Terry Myers £280 (about $345) for sending threatening emails to his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend. Because the man was born in Ireland and Myers referred to him as a "leprechaun," the sentence carried an enhanced penalty for racial aggravation.

Comments

[Inigo Montoya]

Umm, if the Scottish and Irish are both Celts (along with Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons), how would hate speech even apply?

By this standard, anytime a black rapper uses the N word, he would have a price on his head. Not to mention LGBT people who call someone queer.

[loki]

That was my thought. Weren't the Scotti an Irish tribe that invaded what is now Scotland?

[Will Nonya]

I once worked with a Brit, general smart guy, who claimed that because we had to write free speech into law that we didn't actually have free speech while the Brits, did have it without a law.

First time I came across one of these types of stories I sent it to him along with a copy of 1984.

[Entelechy]

Pict lives matter

[Rat on a train]

But with the last name Myers, he is Germanic.

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[Longtobefree]

Go read the next item; nothing to see here.
No chance at all that 'hate speech', defined by hateful people, has a slippery slope.
Move along, now.
Excuse me sir; I said move along. Are you being non-compliant?

[Sheldonius Rex]

Along this vein of thinking I just want to say officially, I will not comply and I do not consent.

That is all.

[cgr2727]

Move along now, or I’ll throw you in the back o’ me paddy wagon.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Which is the race in question? Irish or Leprechaun?

[lap83]

I thought the implied race was ginger

[Earth Skeptic]

What about his lucky charms?

[OneSimpleLesson]

Was this man abnormally short?

[Brandybuck]

We've gone too far with this woke thing when even the Micks are considered their own race. Are we back in the 19th century or something?

[Sheldonius Rex]

But this was Mick on Mick. How can it possibly even be h8 speech?

[StackOfCoins]

I wish someone would call me a leprechaun. Or a cracker. That shit is hilarious.

[Maxime Weygand - Hero Of France]

Leprechaun Cracker

[Sheldonius Rex]

Count Dankula was the test case.

[yjobina]

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