{"id":13849,"date":"2017-07-23T12:26:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T16:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=13849"},"modified":"2017-07-23T12:26:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T16:26:45","slug":"supreme-court-ruling-leads-to-offensive-trademark-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/supreme-court-ruling-leads-to-offensive-trademark-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court ruling leads to offensive trademark requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Honestly, I agree. When you ban hate speech, it can hide and fester in the shadows. But when you lay the cards on the table, you let people speak freely&#8230;then you get to see who the haters are. The darkness is exposed and they can be brought into line with society through social tools, such as peer pressure. Shunned for their hateful speech, the racists will either change or just learn to shut the fuck up&#8230;meanwhile giving us plenty of targets to ridicule on social media, even as our stomachs churn.<\/p>\n<p>Article quote from one of the guys trademarking the N-Word:<\/p>\n<p>Maynard, 50, said he is not racist but believes that saturating the market with such epithets can rob them of their racist connotations. The idea is to spark discussion and turn &#8220;hate into hope,&#8221; he said in a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;If you suppress it, you give it power,&#8221; Maynard said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reut.rs\/2upbHF7\">http:\/\/reut.rs\/2upbHF7<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, I agree. When you ban hate speech, it can hide and fester in the shadows. But when you lay the cards on the table, you let people speak freely&#8230;then you get to see who the haters are. The darkness is exposed and they can be brought into line with society through social tools, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-13849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8868,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/twitter-shuts-down-isis-accounts-but-lets-white-nationalists-stay\/","url_meta":{"origin":13849,"position":0},"title":"Twitter shuts down ISIS accounts but lets white nationalists stay","date":"September 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Twitter is practice of selective, overly PC censorship is fucked. They suspended PewDiePie for possible ISIS links after he made a racist joke. It was a fucking joke. Yet they let white supremacists spew perpetual hate speech. I can see blocking verified hate speech accounts, but VERIFY. You don't have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10808,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/university-of-oklahoma-student-suspended-after-racist-social-media-sent-to-black-upenn-freshmen\/","url_meta":{"origin":13849,"position":1},"title":"University of Oklahoma student suspended after racist social media sent to black UPenn freshmen","date":"November 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Good! 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