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> I thought he taught a dog to do a Nazi salute whenever someone said "gas the Jews", so I think slightly worse than just dressing it up.

It was a(n amateurish) skit. The Monty Python did worse, did he need an authorization for that or something? This is getting ridiculous and the trial was a farce itself, with real life consequences.

Neither should have a record of any kind of doing what they did.

Praise the first Amendment, the kind of liberalism European governments strangely aren't in a hurry to copy...



> did he need an authorization for that or something?

I think the legal standard is that he had to have finished an Oxbridge degree, or at least spent a semester in the Footlights.


I agree, hence why I said I don't think he should have gotten in trouble.


Monty Python shall be forbidden. "Nail him, i say". They even have a manual: "How to irritate people".


Popehat's Law of Goats applies.


It's not a "law", it's often misused as a cheap way to attack things that are obvious satire. Like here, being edgy (even in bad taste) does not make someone an actual nazi.

Of course even if they were an actual nazi that should still be protected.


Poetically, the only other dog that I know of which learned the Nazi salute was absolutely despised by the Nazis, and they went out of their way to try to find the dog, using a lot of resources that could have been more efficiently used gassing innocent families.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/world/europe/12nazi.html




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