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Nazi pug update! Scottish man found guilty of hate crime for online ‘joke’ fined £800

Stephanie Ball by Stephanie Ball
April 30, 2018 - Updated on May 4, 2018
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Pug Behind Bars. Photo Credit: Marcia O’Connor.

Last week, Mark Meechan was sentenced to a £800 fine after he was previously found guilty of committing a hate crime.

The opinion-dividing Scot had published a video on YouTube featuring his girlfriend’s pet pug (not so aptly named Buddha) responding to anti-Semitic slurs.

He was found guilty under The Communications Act for posting the video, which was deemed “grossly offensive” due to its “anti-Semitic and racist nature”.

Meechan has said he plans to appeal the sentencing.

Comedian Ricky Gervais responded on Twitter, expressing his continued advocacy for free speech in comedy. The star of The Office had previously tweeted: ”If you don’t believe in a person’s right to say things that you might find “grossly offensive”, then you don’t believe in Freedom of Speech.”

On the day Meechan’s sentence was announced, Gervais retweeted this post:

Ricky Gervais on Netflix: defending freedom of speech in comedy https://t.co/5skFGzMwwa #23Apr

— PanAm Post (@PanAmPost) April 23, 2018

When passing sentence, Sheriff Derek O’Carroll told Meechan: “A joke can be grossly offensive. A racist joke or a grossly offensive video does not lose its racist or grossly offensive quality merely because the maker asserts he only wanted to get a laugh.”

Here is the original podcast from Aaron and Steph, as they went Head2Head on this topic, featuring free speech, hate crime, and pug rights.

Head2Head – Episode 1

We want to hear your thoughts too, feel free to comment below.

(We are unable to link to examples of the original YouTube videos of Buddha the pug due to the potentially offensive material.)

 

Tags: antisemitismComedydogsfree speechHate crimehead2headMark MeechanNazinazi pugPoliticsRicky GervaisscotlandSheriff Derek O'CarrollThe Officeyoutube
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