Brickbat: Funny Business

A Brazilian court has sentenced comedian Leo Lins to more than eight years in prison for making what it called racist, discriminatory, and hateful jokes during a 2022 stand-up routine. Lins' jokes made fun of black, indigenous, gay, Jewish, and disabled people. It has over 3 million views online. The court said freedom of speech does not override human dignity and equality. Lins plans to appeal and defends his act as artistic, while critics warn the verdict threatens comic expression.

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[bye]

Reason is funny this way. To most on here George Carlin is just another Lenny Bruce or Don Rickles. But Lenny and Don (esp Don) were so unlike the hate-filled despicable Carlin. It is the public that should be reproaching that Brazilian comedian but like Carlin he draws the lowest of the low.

If you ever watched ALL IN THE FAMILY you see the difference betweening lampooning bigotry and just being a higher-priced bigot yourself.

This is a great insight into Carlin
https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/jvm20e/cmv_george_carlin_sucks/

[Fist of Etiquette]

Lock him up?

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

He already is?

[Fist of Etiquette]

The court said freedom of speech does not override human dignity and equality.

The dignity of carceral censorship.

[bye]

Somebody fed you a word you don't understand

carceral
/ˈkärs(ə)rəl/
adjectiveNorth American
relating to or of the nature of a prison

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Bye Skynet is running Brazil, evidently.

[Longtobefree]

"A Brazilian court has sentenced comedian Leo Lins to more than eight years in prison . . . "

Now THAT"S funny!

[Don't look at me! (I miss having inflation)]

We need to bring more of that culture here.

[mad.casual]

Borders are just, like, an abstract social construct, but "freedom of speech does not override human dignity and equality" is a real, substantial, objective, shared bedrock on which you can set the foundation of mutual all individual human liberty.

[mad.casual]

Lins' jokes made fun of black, indigenous, gay, Jewish, and disabled people. It has over 3 million views online. The court said freedom of speech does not override human dignity and equality.

So, once again, is Lins speaking on behalf of The State and law or did *the court* actually backhandedly enshrine into law that black, indigenous, gay, Jewish, and disabled people can't de facto make fun of Lins equally?

[Bubba Jones]

You can't post this brickbat without a link to the offending material!

[VULGAR MADMAN]

Thank goodness that authoritarian lost the election!