Yes because no one accused JK Rowling of that so that part just makes you come off as a histrionic fool
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I'm histrionic. Says the gentleman screaming at me that I'm a 'fucking dipshit,' a 'fucking turd' and every other playground insult he can dredge up. Stay classy you self-described genius.
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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
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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.
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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"
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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"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @quantum_boulder and
You can, but 'racist' is far more damaging and likely to be seen as defamatory than 'idiot.'
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Replying to @VincentFletcher @quantum_boulder and
Calling someone "racist" is explicitly not defamatory under US law, there is specific case law to this effect
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VincentFletcher and
And yet the papers still do weasel word shit like "racially charged"
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Replying to @KittenBalerion @arthur_affect and
Yes, that's lazy journalism.
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Obviously the racial charges haven't been filed in court then it's irresponsible to refer to the subject as having been charged right
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