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Jacob Mchangama
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Jacob Mchangama
@JMchangama
CEO @speechfuture, R. Professor @VanderbiltU Sr Flw @thefireorg, author "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (2022) @basicbooks
- 1/Maybe the most absurd hate speech case to come out of the UK (yet). A woman of South-Asian heritage with a placard calling two senior government ministers of SA heritage (incl PM) for "coconuts" is charged with racism. THEN
- A @nytimes opinion columnist writes a defense of JK Rowling. You can agree or disagree with the piece, just as you can agree or disagree with JKR. But should "human rights" organizations really be in the business of demanding that ONLY perspectives they agree with be published?Replying to @HRCThe New York Times isn’t defending J.K. Rowling — they’re emboldening transphobic views and giving people a free pass to discriminate against and harm trans people. We need to make it clear to @nytimes this is unacceptable. act.hrc.org/page/122477/ac…
- 1/ Disastrous day for global free speech: After relentless pressure from the Islamic states of the @OIC_OCI, attacks on embassies and NGOs, the governments of D🇩🇰 and Sweden🇸🇪 announce their intention to legally ban protests involving Quran burnings.
- Shaun King deletes Twitter account, calls Elon Musk takeover "white power" newsweek.com/shaun-king-del…
- Being of white, Christian European and black, African Muslim background, I desperately need a flow chart showing the cultures whose music, food and clothing I’m allowed to appropriate. Also: which groups appropriation do I get to veto?
- "Hey fucking møgsvin, Tak fordi I redder mit liv, og udsætter Jer selv for fare for at beskytte min ret til at være et kæmpe røvhul, God påske! Kh Slikfrille"
- I´m so deeply ashamed of my home country. A complete and utter surrender to some of the most oppressive states in the world that also paves the way for more restrictive religious laws accross the globe to the detriment of the persecuted. Thank God for the First Amendment.Danish Government set to criminalise improper treatment in public of objects of significant religious importance to religious communities. Read the press release here: via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddelel…
- 1/ I still cannot believe that the Danish government actually issued a statement in which it commits itself to banning the insulting of "other countries, cultures and religions" if this has "significant negative consequences for Denmark". Seriously? via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddelel…
- Replying to @JMchangama2/ ....protestors at Hussain's trial with coconut placards saying "THIS IS SATIRE" are arrested on suspicion of same offense.
- 1/ Påstand: Den danske befolkning er ikke i nyere tid blevet udsat for så systematisk en misinformationskampagne som den som den danske regering og dens støtter i øjeblikket turer frem med ift. Koranafbrændinger. Vi bliver groft manipuleret og direkte løjet til fra højeste sted.
- So the Danish SSI (an agency responsible for disease control and research) has been forced to create an English language page to counter a wave of mis- and disinformation by blue check American Twitter accounts. This is something else!
- Det er ved gå helt galt her i landet. Hvad fanden sker der med den ekstreme linje overfor protester mod regeringens corona-politik? Anholdt og sigtet for at dele et billede af en brændende Mette Frederiksen dukke, som led i en politisk tilkendegivelse??
