# Evading the hate speech prohibition

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**Created:** [September 4, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evading-the-hate-speech-prohibition/1006775 "2024-09-04T19:02:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evading-the-hate-speech-prohibition/1006775/121 "2024-09-11T18:13:09Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> People aren’t wrong when they say certain things about that movie couldn’t be made today.

What if Tarantino directed it, with Samuel L. Jackson as the Sheriff?

> [@BigT](#):
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> Do you guys forget the Netflix thing, where the rest of us were brought up to speed on what is allowed? The CFO who got fired because he had been listening to songs using the n-word and saying it,

That’s … not what happened. At all. Friedland wasn’t CFO, and he wasn’t repeating rap lyrics.

> [@BigT](#):
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> The same Netflix that put out transphobic specials and defended it couldn’t defend the guy saying the n-word.

Whataboutism isn’t a substitute for an argument.

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