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		readthenotes1 on Jan 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Update on an Employee Matter Something has to be defamatory and expressed orally for it to be slander. Apparently, all the labeling should have been around libel. I am having trouble adjusting to a reality in which I am the first to express this quibble. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/libel-vs-slander-dif...

manicdee on Jan 17, 2021 [–]

That's really an irrelevant piece of nitpicking, especially given the context being that someone was fired for calling neo-Nazis, Nazis.

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