Posted on 12/13/2024 11:10:44 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
RIO DE JANEIRO — Day McCarthy has made hateful comments. Her targets have frequently been children, particularly the children of celebrities. She has called one girl “ugly.” Another child “disgustingly skinny.”
And in one racist utterance that outraged this deeply diverse country, the Brazilian social media provocateur once took aim at the adopted Black daughter of two White celebrities, calling the 4-year-old girl a “monkey.”
“I say what’s on my mind,” McCarthy, who identifies as half Black, said in an interview. “I’m a polemicist.”
Brazil now has another name for her: criminal.
Seven years after her bigoted attack on the Black girl, a federal judge in August convicted McCarthy, 35, of the crime of racism and handed her the type of penalty traditionally reserved for violent offenders and drug traffickers: eight years and nine months in prison. McCarthy, who lives in Paris and rarely posts online these days, is appealing for a reduced sentence, and no arrest warrant has yet been issued.
The severe sentence, the longest ever meted out by the Brazilian justice system for the crime of racism, illustrates a mounting willingness in Brazil and across much of the world to criminalize racist speech and jail those who use it. In recent years, South Africa sent its first person to prison for racist speech. A court in Belgium ordered one man to spend 15 days in jail for sending racist messages to a television host. And earlier this year, Spain gave eight-month prison sentences to three men who yelled racist taunts at a Brazilian soccer player.
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She doesn’t have room to talk. She looks like a mean -itch.
Yet another reason to bomb Brasilia. In addition to having a Communist thug who stole the election running the place.
She must think she lives in a country that has freedom of speech. She doesn’t. But for that matter, neither do I.
Yet another reason to bomb Brasilia. In addition to having a Communist thug who stole the election running the place.
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Using B-52’s?
Why yes, we used them to great effect in Decemeber of 1972 over Hanoi and Haiphong.
Funny how that works.
Don Rickles would be in prison for life if he were alive and made those comments in Brazil.
Brazil is nothing less than a communist state.
It’s confusing - I can’t read the whole article, but it seems to say she lives in Paris (??)
State terrorism is a growing thing. She should be given American polotical asylum, and thereupon make “racist” temarks against the judge and his family.
The “crime of racism”, I laughed.
It’s not just Brazil that throws people in prison like this. Canada does this quite often and this behavior is creeping slowly into the United States.
I was a grunt in I Corp. about 30 miles south of the DMZ in 1972.
You can’t compare the two.
For you to call for bombing a city full of innocent people is not right and shows you sure aren’t the brightest bulb on the tree.
(KJV) Proverbs 29:11a A FOOL uttereth all his mind
Someone was a naughty little monkey.
And the UK.
This kind of irrationality and offense taking seems to be spreading.
I didn’t know that “ugly” and “skinny” are “racial slurs.”
Well, if we are going to be fair about this, anyone who uses the term “whiteness” in a derogatory manner, likening it to a disease or a pathology, something to be eliminated, should be jailed.
And I’d bet you don’t even know what was targeted in Hanoi and Haiphong. Now I bet you’ll look it up.
Can’t compare the two?
Uncle Ho said he was just a social reformer trying to overturn French Colonialism. IOW it was a race war. He didn’t like Whitey. Where was our legitimacy in bombing Hanoi?
If we had gone in big in May of 1965 he and his buddies would have sued for peace and millions would have lived.
You think Lula da Silva isn’t as bad? Won’t do the things that Castro, Guevara, Ho and Pol Pot did? Oh darn. I forgot Daniel Ortega, Maximum Leader of Nicaraugua, “social reformer”. And of course Beeg Man Maduro, Caudillo de Venezuela. Currently staging an invasion of our country with the aid of the entire Democrat party.
In Latin America if you let someone get over on you they assume you’re weak and if they take advantage of you, it’s on you, not them. That’s how a thug like Da Silva thinks.
So maybe it’s a bit premature to level his playground. But a majority of his country doesn’t agree with him, and he just takes power anyway. What would be your suggestion
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