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[cormack12]

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...e-charged-b2582083.html?utm_source=reddit.com

A Black woman has been charged after using the n-word in a tweet to another Black woman, The Independent has learned.

Jamila Abdi, 21, was having a discussion about a football match on X (formerly known as Twitter) on 27 August 2023 and used the n-word to refer to Black footballer Alexander Isak.

“I’m so p***** off let me get my hands on that f**** n***a,” Ms Abdi, who lives in London, wrote.

 

[feynoob]

Equal rights means equal rights. That is the law that matters.

 

[SJRB]

4D chess move right there: charge every black person using the n-word

 

[Ownage]

ibtl.

 

[AJUMP23]

UK..........mean tweets getting you arrested is dumb. No freedom of speech and cops willing to enforce the draconian laws.

 

[Mistake]

When the populace is stupid enough to believe oppression is a good thing, this is what happens

 

[Ulysses 31]

When the populace is stupid enough to believe oppression is a good thing, this is what happens

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Still waiting on Axel Rudakubana's sentence btw. When people who said bad things on Twitter afterward are already in the slammer.

 

[Bring Back Scalebound]

Wait, it wasn't even with the "er"?...

I didn't know the UK was like that...

 

[Bojji]

Wait, it wasn't even with the "er"?...

I didn't know the UK was like that...

It's a totalitarian country now. You can be arrested for criticizing government too (in theory).

 

[jason10mm]

Wait, it wasn't even with the "er"?...

IMHO if the word is "problematic" then it is ALWAYS problematic no matter who uses it, trying to contextualize it is foolish.

But of course making words problematic in the first place is dumb. PUNCHING me is problematic, using racial slurs while doing so doesn't really make the punches hurt any more or less

 

[ahtlas7]

I’ll feel so much safer next time I visit London.

 

[Lambogenie]

Bit much.

But good to get her off the net either way for a bit.

 

[feynoob]

UK..........mean tweets getting you arrested is dumb. No freedom of speech and cops willing to enforce the draconian laws.

The plot of V for vendetta. The government will slowly take control of everything in the name of protecting people.

 

[John Bilbo]

I've seen videos from England of police questioning whether someone is praying in their thoughts and getting arrested when saying yes.

Thought crime is real.

 

[Griffon]

The UK is lost.

 

[8bitpill]

 

[Trilobit]

I thought only the hard r-version was illegal. Not that I use the other one in my daily vocabulary.

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

charged under the Communications Act of 2003

After being questioned. Wonder what that interview was like and if it will be used in court.
Says she had a court date on the 8th of Aug. Wonder how that went and if it was thrown out.

The byline and correspondent title for the article is an unintentionally hilarious. Nadine White, Race Correspondent. It's hard to believe this isn't a bit.

 

[CGNoire]

The UK right now is just the canary in the coal mine. Toughen the fuck up people or else the US is next.

 

[Tams]

My country is an utter joke now.

George Orwell didn't write plans on how to govern. Morons.

That's all I have to say.

 

[Lumyst]

My country is an utter joke now.

George Orwell didn't write plans on how to govern. Morons.

That's all I have to say.

In light of tracing the source of today's woke ideology back to the 1960's, I skimmed through a book on my brother's bookshelf written in the 1960s titled "The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition." The author called Orwell an "anti Utopianist."

 

[EviLore]

In light of tracing the source of today's woke ideology back to the 1960's, I skimmed through a book on my brother's bookshelf written in the 1960s titled "The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition." The author called Orwell an "anti Utopianist."

Yes. Utopianism is inherently dystopian in practice.

Humans are messy and fallible creatures. The only way to carve a path to utopia on Earth is through blood—mass murdering and disappearing and reeducating and threatening the population until they conform to the utopian blueprint. But it will only ever be a facade since human nature always prevails. And since it can never be achieved, the rounds of mass murder and oppression to remove undesirables and nonconformists will never end as long as the desire to achieve utopia remains. See: communism and fascism in the 20th century.

 

[MudoSkills]

I've seen videos from England of police questioning whether someone is praying in their thoughts and getting arrested when saying yes.

Thought crime is real.

What?

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Minority report is right around the corner

 

[John Bilbo]

I've seen videos from England of police questioning whether someone is praying in their thoughts and getting arrested when saying yes.

Thought crime is real.

What?

 

[TransTrender]

LOL UK
You're done

 

[IDKFA]

UK..........mean tweets getting you arrested is dumb. No freedom of speech and cops willing to enforce the draconian laws.

It's pretty brutal here in the UK.

I bring up this example because of how harsh it is.

Short version. Girl's boyfriend dies. In a post on Instagram, she copy and pastes the lyrics to a Snap Dogg song, which has the N word. She's white, but she wasn't using the word in a hateful way. However, the context didn't matter. Just using that word got her dragged to court and charged with a hate crime.

Woman guilty of 'racist' Snap Dogg rap lyric Instagram post

Chelsea Russell said she used the Snap Dogg lyric as a tribute to a boy who died in a crash.

www.bbc.com

 

[SidViscous]

UK to be the first country to actually introduce an n word pass, I'm calling it

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

I agree, it's fucked up that the UK does that but dumb cunts need to stay in their lane sometimes. Karma is a bitch.

 

[John Bilbo]

UK to be the first country to actually introduce an n word pass, I'm calling it

They could make it £100 and have it expire once a year make a killing in taxes.

 

[John Bilbo]

This was a while back in the UK but still funny:

Student fined for gay horse comment

A student spent a night in police cells and was fined £80 for making homophobic comments about a police horse.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk

 

[kurisu_1974]

It's pretty brutal here in the UK.

I bring up this example because of how harsh it is.

Short version. Girl's boyfriend dies. In a post on Instagram, she copy and pastes the lyrics to a Snoop Dogg song, which has the N word. She's white, but she wasn't using the word in a hateful way. However, the context didn't matter. Just using that word got her dragged to court and changed with a hate crime.

Woman guilty of 'racist' Snap Dogg rap lyric Instagram post

Chelsea Russell said she used the Snap Dogg lyric as a tribute to a boy who died in a crash.

www.bbc.com

I opened that article and it was not about Snoop Dogg but Snap Dogg so I thought wait is this real and it is

Snap Dogg: Rap’s ‘Problem Child of Detroit’ grows up

He went viral for putting guns in his videos. Now, the only time he’s a hot-head is behind the mic.

www.metrotimes.com

 

[Trilobit]

It's pretty brutal here in the UK.

I bring up this example because of how harsh it is.

Short version. Girl's boyfriend dies. In a post on Instagram, she copy and pastes the lyrics to a Snoop Dogg song, which has the N word. She's white, but she wasn't using the word in a hateful way. However, the context didn't matter. Just using that word got her dragged to court and changed with a hate crime.

Woman guilty of 'racist' Snap Dogg rap lyric Instagram post

Chelsea Russell said she used the Snap Dogg lyric as a tribute to a boy who died in a crash.

www.bbc.com

Where are the lines drawn, can you post the song on your youtube channel? Or what happens if you use the word in a book you're writing?

 

[Tams]

Where are the lines drawn, can you post the song on your youtube channel? Or what happens if you use the word in a book you're writing?

That's the best part; they won't tell you.

We're walking on eggshells here.

 

[IDKFA]

I opened that article and it was not about Snoop Dogg but Snap Dogg so I thought wait is this real and it is

Snap Dogg: Rap’s ‘Problem Child of Detroit’ grows up

He went viral for putting guns in his videos. Now, the only time he’s a hot-head is behind the mic.

www.metrotimes.com

Bollocks. Stupid phone. Thanks for the tip. I'll edit it.

Where are the lines drawn, can you post the song on your youtube channel? Or what happens if you use the word in a book you're writing?

I honestly have no idea. The way the UK is headed you could probably could expect the police to kick down your door in a dawn raid.

 

[Tams]

Bollocks. Stupid phone. Thanks for the tip. I'll edit it.



I honestly have no idea. The way the UK is headed you could probably could expect the police to kick down your door in a dawn raid.

And yet they field riot officers who get toppled over with one kick.

And as sad as it is that I have to state this: no, officer, I'm not advocating/condoning rioting and harming police officers. Thank you for reading my Mongolian basket weaving blog.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Fuck the UK.

Edit: Sorry that was just a raw reaction, I really feel for the people of the United Kingdom. Y'all gotta pump the brakes.

 

[LegendOfKage]

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...e-charged-b2582083.html?utm_source=reddit.com

A Black woman has been charged after using the n-word in a tweet to another Black woman, The Independent has learned.

Jamila Abdi, 21, was having a discussion about a football match on X (formerly known as Twitter) on 27 August 2023 and used the n-word to refer to Black footballer Alexander Isak.

“I’m so p***** off let me get my hands on that f**** n***a,” Ms Abdi, who lives in London, wrote.

There's always been a resentment surrounding that word with certain people and the perception of fairness. "Well, if I don't get to say it, then no one should be able to say it!" While I understand why people might think that way, I think the better way of looking at things is "well, if I don't get to use slurs about other groups of people, no one should use slurs about me." That makes more sense to me, and still acknowledges the fairness issue that led to the original concern.

But of course, no one should ever be arrested or fined by their government for using a word. That's authoritarianism.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

If America didn't have stupid health bills I'd get my ass on a boat and be a boat person coming to America on god.

 

[EviLore]

Thank god for this gigachad.

 

[AJUMP23]

Thank god for this gigachad.

No politics.

 

[Tams]

No politics.

He's just a gentleman with a funny hairstyle.

 

[John Bilbo]

He's just a gentleman with a funny hairstyle.

I thought it was a selfie.

 

[Trilobit]

Thank god for this gigachad.

Is that George III? Don't really know much about British history.

 

[EviLore]

Is that George III? Don't really know much about British history.

James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights (and principal architect of the US Constitution).

 

[Power Pro]

Geez, now I understand why V for Vendetta took place in Britain...had no idea things were so fucked up there.

 

[YCoCg]

I only ever read about this stuff online, if I stayed offline I'd never know about silly stuff like this. Feels like the old rumours where police later in the month would purposely seek out any bullshit to pump up their numbers, the easier the better.

 

[thefool]

It's the populace that enabled clown world that will suffer more from it.

 

[Denton]

UK has become one of the most pathetic countries on earth. Which is impressive given where it was just 150 years ago.

I give it 50 years before it either collapses or becomes islamic state.