<story><title>Irishman arrested in UK for &apos;causing anxiety&apos; by retweeting meme</title><url>https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/irishman-arrested-uk-causing-anxiety-27639423</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aydyn</author><text>&amp;gt; Whether or not an arrest is warranted is another debate, but the it&amp;#x27;s important to highlight the context of the group who made the image to understand their motivations behind creating the image, and what it implies about people who share the image.&lt;p&gt;No it&amp;#x27;s not, it&amp;#x27;s literally not relevant (or at least shouldn&amp;#x27;t be). You are saying a person&amp;#x27;s political beliefs are legally relevant to if they should be arrested or not.</text></item><item><author>elsonrodriguez</author><text>It is noteworthy that the &amp;quot;meme&amp;quot; being shared was pride flags arranged in a swastika pattern, and that the person who originally made the image runs the Bad Law Project, whose webpage(&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.badlawproject.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.badlawproject.com&lt;/a&gt;) contains statements such as this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;Bad law is political ideology disguised as law. When we see police officers marching with demonstrators and waving political flags and chanting activist slogans - that is bad law.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;Our Equality Act 2010 is bad law, because it does not treat all people equally and can be interpreted in such a way as to discriminate against people with certain views or beliefs.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the people they feature on their website as oppressed by &amp;quot;Bad Law&amp;quot; is Calvin Robinson, who has this to say on twitter:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;“No LGB without T” is a highly political statement. What does a mental health issue have to do with sexuality?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;The trans movement is discriminatory towards women’s rights and female-only spaces.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;Anime is degenerate. There’s a reason most trans activists use anime avatars.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell it&amp;#x27;s an anti LGBT organization, and focuses on legal defense of people who engage in hate speech, and the repeal of anti discrimination laws.&lt;p&gt;Whether or not an arrest is warranted is another debate, but the it&amp;#x27;s important to highlight the context of the group who made the image to understand their motivations behind creating the image, and what it implies about people who share the image.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mock-possum</author><text>I could be wrong, but I think there&amp;#x27;s a specific violent threat embedded in calling trans people nazis - nazis are still the simplest shorthand terminology for &amp;quot;unambiguously evil oppressors whom it is acceptable to violently oppose.&amp;quot; No one wrings their hands and bemoans the Allies&amp;#x27; treatment of the nazis in WW2. To this very day it&amp;#x27;s hard to answer &amp;quot;is it okay to punch a nazi&amp;quot; negatively- most people would probably agree that the nazi had it coming.&lt;p&gt;That kind of sentiment makes this whole &amp;quot;trans nazis are infiltrating and controlling the cis lesbian and gay rights movement&amp;quot; accusation a little scarier, in my opinion, due to context - portraying your ideological opponents as nazis as prelude to violence, and trans people are already the target of &lt;i&gt;plenty&lt;/i&gt; of violent transphobic attacks.&lt;p&gt;(I still don&amp;#x27;t think this arrest is warranted, absent some sort of other evidence that he intends to do more than call people names online... but there are very specific connotations to calling trans people nazis, that I feel like it&amp;#x27;s fair to call out aside from mere &amp;#x27;political beliefs&amp;#x27;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Irishman arrested in UK for &apos;causing anxiety&apos; by retweeting meme</title><url>https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/irishman-arrested-uk-causing-anxiety-27639423</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aydyn</author><text>&amp;gt; Whether or not an arrest is warranted is another debate, but the it&amp;#x27;s important to highlight the context of the group who made the image to understand their motivations behind creating the image, and what it implies about people who share the image.&lt;p&gt;No it&amp;#x27;s not, it&amp;#x27;s literally not relevant (or at least shouldn&amp;#x27;t be). You are saying a person&amp;#x27;s political beliefs are legally relevant to if they should be arrested or not.</text></item><item><author>elsonrodriguez</author><text>It is noteworthy that the &amp;quot;meme&amp;quot; being shared was pride flags arranged in a swastika pattern, and that the person who originally made the image runs the Bad Law Project, whose webpage(&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.badlawproject.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.badlawproject.com&lt;/a&gt;) contains statements such as this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;Bad law is political ideology disguised as law. When we see police officers marching with demonstrators and waving political flags and chanting activist slogans - that is bad law.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;Our Equality Act 2010 is bad law, because it does not treat all people equally and can be interpreted in such a way as to discriminate against people with certain views or beliefs.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the people they feature on their website as oppressed by &amp;quot;Bad Law&amp;quot; is Calvin Robinson, who has this to say on twitter:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;“No LGB without T” is a highly political statement. What does a mental health issue have to do with sexuality?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;The trans movement is discriminatory towards women’s rights and female-only spaces.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;Anime is degenerate. There’s a reason most trans activists use anime avatars.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell it&amp;#x27;s an anti LGBT organization, and focuses on legal defense of people who engage in hate speech, and the repeal of anti discrimination laws.&lt;p&gt;Whether or not an arrest is warranted is another debate, but the it&amp;#x27;s important to highlight the context of the group who made the image to understand their motivations behind creating the image, and what it implies about people who share the image.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saghm</author><text>&amp;gt; No it&amp;#x27;s not, it&amp;#x27;s literally not relevant (or at least shouldn&amp;#x27;t be). You are saying a person&amp;#x27;s political beliefs are legally relevant to if they should be arrested or not.&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t the idea that the intent behind actions being legally relevant pretty well established? There&amp;#x27;s a difference between different degrees of murder and between murder and manslaughter based not on whether the actions themselves differed, but whether the intent to kill was there (and not even that, but how _long_ it was held, e.g. &amp;quot;spur of the moment&amp;quot; versus premeditated). It seems like in any case where intent is relevant, looking at the context of the accused would be necessary to determine the scope of the crime.</text></comment>