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Daily Mail printing Hate Speech.

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firemansamantha · 16/06/2011 12:06

Comments on this article which is about less female babies being born.

Daily Mail have printed this: " This is a good thing, as women are only really needed for giving birth, there should not be equality, as men are clearly biologically stronger, so "man"kind as whole will benefit."

I know the DM is a misogyinist piece of shit but are they legally entitled to publish hate speech like this?

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firemansamantha · 16/06/2011 19:40

To their credit, some people have made that same comment on there about females being more resilient.

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NasalCoffeeEnema · 16/06/2011 12:21

World got there before me. The stuff about them being biologically stronger is tosh anyway. They need more cos they're weaker not stronger.

worldgonecrazy · 16/06/2011 12:19

Perhaps the DM should have printed the biological reason that there are more baby boys born than girls - baby boys are more likely to suffer stillbirth, early infant mortality, should they make it to teen years bravado/car crashes or the modern equivalent of proving manhood sees off a few more and then in middle age they die earlier. That would have shut that stupid poster up.

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firemansamantha · 16/06/2011 12:17

It's been on there for 10 days, yes you could be right about the legal side of things.

I tried to comment on something on there before (god knows why i bothered) and they heavily edited what I said. But that comment is allowed to stand (maybe it was even worse before?)

I just can't work out if they'd go ahead and publish something like this if it was racism rather than sexism, e.g. "" This is a good thing, as there should not be equality, as white people are clearly biologically stronger, so "man"kind as whole will benefit."

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sunshineandbooks · 16/06/2011 12:13

My guess is that they've covered their backs with the 'the views expressed here do not necessarily reflect' bit. I expect they probably will remove it but they will be in no hurry to do so.

How many people actually read the comments I wonder. I always assumed given the demographic of the DM that it would be full of right-wing misogynistic crap anyway. Even if they didn't allow comments, they've only got to read the articles to shore up viewpoints like that. Wink

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