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Comment by dtujmer | Hacker News Reader

People get upset about relatively unimportant things. I'm pretty sure sexism exists and is bad, but this is just... not it. It's a dumb meme, that's all.

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It's not really up to you or me to dictate what other people think though, or what they feel is important to them, so the fact you think it's a dumb meme isn't relevant. That's why we have courts.

Courts shouldn't be wasting their time on this. If courts spent time on every single thing people complained about, nothing important would get done.

That's why we have levels of courts and people whose job it is to decide whether or not a case has merit based on arguments brought by interested parties. We can't say something is a waste of time just by looking at it. We can't see the nuance at the heart of every matter.

Again, it's not for you or me to dictate what is actually important. Not important to you is not the same as being objectively unimportant.

Courts shouldn't have so many resources that they should be looking at things like that

for one thing, a use of a meme doesn't infringe on anyone's rights

> We can't say something is a waste of time just by looking at it.

We sure can.

There are two distinct things here. One of them is a meme, the other one is a job ad.

You're talking about the meme, the Swedish ad watchdog is talking about the job ad.

Neither of which are sexist

Well, apparently not everyone agrees with you. Since you haven't laid out an argument there's not really much ground to see where you and this ruling disagree.

https://www.imgur.com/t/funny/ucD8kUv

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