https://news.sky.com/story/theresa-m...dcast-11741134
Jo Brand recently made a joke about throwing battery acid on Brexiteer politicians. Some think it was incitement to violence, but it is not. Neither the context nor the intent was to inite violence.
Now here’s the thing, this needs to be approached with nuance. While Jo Brand shouldn’t be in some way punished for this, it would be double standards for her not to be. That is to say, she did nothing wrong, but the people who would indict her would be. Which is either the BBC sacking/blacklisting her, and the police charging her with causing gross offence, or the same doing nothing, which is double standards compared to their reactions to previous similar cases.
Here’s the joke in context.
This was a pretty good discussion where Tom Walker and David Vance point out why the joke is free speech and why the BBC is being hypocritical.
And to put it out there, the argument against her being allowed to say what she said is around incitement to violence which absolutely should be illegal. It’s not the same issue as silly hatespeech and offensive jokes, and therefore is not hypocrisy.