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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @VincentFletcher @AtticumFloreat @mattdpearce

      These are all, as Bryan helpfully reminded us, examples of insults that are matters of opinion and therefore cannot be legally actionable in a defamation suit, as opposed to his bizarre example of accusing someone of murdering civilians during wartime

      3 replies 1 retweet 54 likes
    2. A large boulder the size of a small boulder‏ @quantum_boulder 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @VincentFletcher and

      To be fair, I wouldn't say that calling someone racist or transphobic falls within the same purview as, say, calling them an idiot. It's an insult, but it's one which clearly implies a sufficiently specific factual assertion as to have a meaningful truth value.

      4 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @quantum_boulder @VincentFletcher and

      Not really, or at least not to any greater degree This absurd idea of throwing the corpus of someone's tweets before a jury and saying "Now evaluate this for hatefulness toward Black people" is about as absurd as "Now evaluate this for education level and erudition"

      1 reply 2 retweets 26 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @quantum_boulder and

      Like, yes, you could say that by reading someone's writing you can come up with arguments for or against the idea they deserve to be called "a racist", but you can say the same thing about calling them "an idiot", or calling them "a bully"

      3 replies 2 retweets 24 likes
    5. A large boulder the size of a small boulder‏ @quantum_boulder 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @VincentFletcher and

      I think it's the specificity of the insult that makes a difference here. The set of factual propositions implied by calling someone a transphobe is much smaller than that implied by calling someone an idiot, which makes the "greater degree" quite self-evident, no?

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @quantum_boulder @VincentFletcher and

      No I mean, the word "idiot" is fairly non-specific as used in popular slang, but I personally think the world has a lot more transphobes than idiots

      1 reply 1 retweet 19 likes
    7. A large boulder the size of a small boulder‏ @quantum_boulder 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @VincentFletcher and

      Unless you're conflating "greater range of true propositions" with "greater number of actual instances of the proposition being true", I don't see how the relative numbers of each matters here. The specificity seems a lot more relevant.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @quantum_boulder @VincentFletcher and

      Nah, it doesn't

      1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
    9. Fletch Fletchington‏ @VincentFletcher 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @quantum_boulder and

      Don't take this personally Arthur old chap, but a career as a barrister does not await you.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @VincentFletcher @quantum_boulder and

      Stevens v Tillman, 1988, established that accusations of "racism" were per se nonactionable; Grutzmacher v. Chicago Sun-Times, 1994, went further and established that even calling someone a "neo-Nazi" is non-actionable, as it does not refer to specific facts but to opinion

      1 reply 3 retweets 37 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @VincentFletcher and

      Of course this probably doesn't hold true on Rainy Tea-Stained Fascism Island, but I can't imagine wanting to live there, much less practice law there

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        2. Weaponised sarcasm‏ @lizbth_geeks 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @SazCaz81 @arthur_affect and

          Same, and solidarity to you from a fellow terrified tea-stain.

          0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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        2. Alan Simpson‏ @BionicIguana 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @VincentFletcher and

          If she sues someone in UK court they don't get to pick and choose which legal system they want

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @BionicIguana @VincentFletcher and

          Sure, UK libel law sucks I'm not recommending that people stick their neck out and try their luck against her I'm rolling my eyes that this isn't bullying and abuse

          5 replies 3 retweets 20 likes
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        2. A large boulder the size of a small boulder‏ @quantum_boulder 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @VincentFletcher and

          I'm not saying UK law gets the balance right either, far from it, but can we at least acknowledge that "person with massive amounts of power and money smears some random as a neo-Nazi and defends it on the basis that it's technically not falsifiable" is not an ideal scenario?

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @quantum_boulder @VincentFletcher and

          Better than that selfsame rich person being able to sue some rando for everything they have because they called them a neo-Nazi on Twitter

          0 replies 2 retweets 13 likes
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        2. Saadia Toor‏ @pagalpanchi 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @VincentFletcher and

          It’s also pretty easy to show that Rowling’s *is* transphobic even if one can not verify such things in a court of law. 🤷🏽‍♀️But the school doesn’t have the resources to fight such a legal battle - which is what makes her act even more disgusting

          2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Fletch Fletchington‏ @VincentFletcher 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @pagalpanchi @arthur_affect and

          It's a publication produced by a proven right wing antagonist.

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        1. The Sandrunners‏ @TheSandrunners 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @VincentFletcher and

          Then please feel free to stay where you are..

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @FuriousBongo @VincentFletcher and

          Yeah I wouldn't want to live in a country where people's coping mechanism for living there is talking constantly about how another country is worse

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