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I didn't understand this when this happened. I don't understand why it's wrong to express your racist opinion...or make a racist joke? Apparently it's the worst thing ever, but we love it when comedians do it. If you keep going after people for what they believe they'll simply become more entrenched. Education is key here, not attack.

Sponsors have the right to pick who they want for representatives...and in this case, Greece's government was the sponsor.

Honestly, there wasn't really anything wrong with the joke, other than being stupid. But if there is a history of nasty, divisive commentary, then I can see why a government might not wish a person to be representing them in the larger world.

>> ^Stormsinger:

Sponsors have the right to pick who they want for representatives...and in this case, Greece's government was the sponsor.
Honestly, there wasn't really anything wrong with the joke, other than being stupid. But if there is a history of nasty, divisive commentary, then I can see why a government might not wish a person to be representing them in the larger world.


Yeah that's where I have a problem...a government deciding what a person can say. Freedom of speech for all, the only way to go.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Stormsinger:
Sponsors have the right to pick who they want for representatives...and in this case, Greece's government was the sponsor.
Honestly, there wasn't really anything wrong with the joke, other than being stupid. But if there is a history of nasty, divisive commentary, then I can see why a government might not wish a person to be representing them in the larger world.

Yeah that's where I have a problem...a government deciding what a person can say. Freedom of speech for all, the only way to go.

How does it go? Freedom of speech is not the same as freedom from the consequences.

Nobody is threatening to put her in jail...she's quite free to spout as many nasty attacks as she wants. But nobody has a "right" to be a country's representative. Losing that position is a consequence of her free speech, not a violation of it.