Concept tag
#offence
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Protecting believers or protecting beliefs? Where offence to the sacred stops being the law’s business
Every few months the same argument breaks out somewhere: a cartoon, a novel, a burned book, a comedian. One side says nothing is sacred in law. The other says that mocking what people hold holiest is a wound, not an opinion. I…
Started by Hamza Qureshi3 replies -
“That’s not what I meant”: a comic on jokes, apologies and who owns the meaning
Friday night in a club in Salford, I did a bit about my mum's driving. A bloke near the front decided it was about him, because he'd heckled about my accent earlier, and he came up afterwards furious. My first instinct was…
Started by Gemma Pritchard4 replies