Aral BalkanOh, this? It’s just Jimmy Carr casually joking that the genocide of a people was part of “the positives” of the Holocaust on Netflix.
Hundreds of thousands of Roma were murdered by the Nazis during the genocide.
We don’t talk about this, according to Jimmy Carr, because it is part of “the positives” of the Holocaust.
This is apparently the content Netflix want on their platform.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/genocide-of-european-roma-gypsies-1939-1945
Quincy ⁂@aral Today on BBC they had an "expert" live on air who offered the opinion that
1) this is merely about "upsetting sensibilities" and
2) "we're going to have to get used to it, ultimately we're the judges, we can always decide to post on twitter that we're upset or even cancel our Netflix subscription".
3) this is about "comedians" increasingly "being scared and not able to speak their mind"
(and apparently not about those at the receiving end of such "jokes")
@aral (There you have it. In neoliberalism, regulating corporations is quite out of the question and it's up to "the market" or "our individual decisions as viewers" - whether to tolerate such cowardly acts of "freedom of speech" or to "get upset on twitter", presumably.)
@aral Because the market decides™. An if it wants hatred, then that's what we all get ...
@aral So according to that "expert" we just have to accept that anyone who feels threatened by incitement to racial hatred is fair game. Too bad for someone who doesn't have a fucking #netflix account to cancel to signal one's "upset sensibilities", lot of good that'll do when all this normalization of right-wing "free speech" translates into physical violence.
I'm very upset about this hypocrisy, not least because the "#copyright" system these companies rely on comes with *actual* unbalanced restrictions on free speech, (e.g. free speech about "#circumvention measures") - and wouldn't stand a chance when exposed to a truly free #martket.