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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Actually didn’t have to look it up even then.
Had oldest of family friends on one of those airplanes that got shot down. Oddly, he never thought it was a bad idea. Bringing them back to the table was the goal and it worked, and he was proud of that. It was his treatment coming home that pissed him off.
That’s assuming she’s even biologically female at all.
You proposed bombing Brasilia, which is full of people. The Hanoi and Haiphong bombings did not concentrate on civilian population areas.
You are trying to spin it and it won’t work. You’re a big talker full of crap and yourself who doesn’t get it.
Me and my buddies were called baby killers and had stuff thrown on us when we got home. You’ don’t need to mention how we were treated.
End of conversation..no more from you.
Lol That could be. One never knows these days.
Brasilia is a for the purpose constructed government city. In the event of a war, it would indeed be a target. Civilian areas wouldn’t be a target for lack of value, although that never stopped us in bombing Germany, where the actual factory workers were the target.
And as far as people telling me to stop talking about getting rid of the Latin American Communists, ain’t gonna happen. No spin needed. Shoulda dumped Castro a long time before we went to South East Asia.
Eventually, the Bible will be
labeled as “hate speech 💬”
This was a theme in the LaLonde movies
way back when
You Vill Think Ze Proper Thoughts!!
No freedom of speech in Brazil, under the new far-left, woke regime.
If the Washington Post is for it we had better be against it.
I’m confused too.
Was she convicted in absentia?
Are they trying to extradite her?
Brazil is its own country. I hope no other country tries to tell us our laws are wrong. If we again put our nose in another countries business, I bet someday a foreign country will do it to us.
She does not crawl in through their windows, sit at their table and yell her opinions at them. I never knew she existed. And it was fine.
Unless you are encouraging people to physically hurt other people you are entitled to your loud mouthed stupid opinion.
Of course, if one of the parents who's child you insulted happened to stumble and their fist happened to accidentally pop you right in the kisser four or five times well, such accidents can happen.
Yes.
I hope no other country tries to tell us our laws are wrong.
They have only been doing so for a couple of centuries now.
If we again put our nose in another countries business, I bet someday a foreign country will do it to us.
Also been happening for a couple of centuries.
You really are not that observant are you?
Just a tad bit on the DIM side perhaps?
Is the food as good as they say?
What country demands we change our laws? None. Stop lying.
Is the food as good as they say?
Only if you like black beans.
Who knows? There’s no explanation.
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