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		akerl_ on Oct 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Character amnesia in China Calling someone a racist is actually nearly never defamatory, since it’s almost always an opinion based either on disclosed facts or an opinion based on nothing.

cubefox on Nov 1, 2024 [–]

Of course it's defamatory, as many cases of cancellation show.

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