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| Dutch court convicts 20 in racist abuse of politician |
| 2017-05-19 |
| [NEWS24] A Dutch court has convicted 20 people of insulting or threatening a politician and television personality in a racially charged case that shocked the nation. The verdicts on Thursday came in the trial in Amsterdam of 21 people accused of targeting Sylvana Simons, who is a former dancer and television presenter of Surinamese descent, with a torrent of online racist abuse. One person was acquitted. The court said in a statement that the heaviest sentence, 80 hours of community service, went to a man who superimposed the head of Simons on video images of a Ku Klux Klan lynching. Simons' political group, called Artikel 1, welcomed the verdicts, saying in a tweet that they sent a "clear signal" about the limits of freedom of speech. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 So, was this a leering, gaptoothed "attack" on Ms. Simons, or mere mockery of her (I'm assuming here) lurid claims of enduring victimhood? If the latter, and it's me catching 80 hours, I'm demanding to do my time in DF van... or censoring posts online... anti-Christmas education... anti-pork campaign... euthanizing droolers... on and on... Also, sending in a montage of my face pasted onto cotton pickers, schoolteachers, politicians, Black Peter... Can you buy fun like that, even in Holland? And at the end of it all, to spend a month or two delivering lunches to delightful old Dutch ladies (or passing out prostitute vouchers to junkies, or whatever constitutes community service over there)? What a country! Hey, Sylvana, wanna get married? |
| Posted by: Ulailing Jusomp3598 2017-05-19 16:03 |
| #2 the dutch did this with a straight face!!! um, ok |
| Posted by: 746 2017-05-19 12:45 |
| #1 Trump is a TV personality. He could take up dancing. Maybe he should look into Ancestor.com to see if he might be of Surinamese descent. Maybe this case ought to be a model for the USA (said in half-jest). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-05-19 08:23 |