Edit: Damn, did not expect this to turn into today’s struggle sesh.

Here’s my both sides/both sides take. Should people be executed for drawing, publishing or showing hateful cartoons? Probably not.

What grosses me out is how Enlightened Secular France has spent centuries colonizing and brutalizing muslims and continues to oppress them with discriminatory laws while acting like the entire point of Free Speech TM is the right to degrade a profoundly marginalized minority.

As someone brought up in this thread, the whole Mohammad cartoon controversy reminds me of the perennial debate “why would a black person get violent if you call them the n-word, it’s just a word.” Context matters, when you purposely provoke an oppressed minority by shoving the thing they find most offensive in their face, you may get a violent reaction.

I don’t think this guy deserves to die at all, but Charlie Hebdo is very racist and it’s gross how people rally around it like it’s this bastion of free speech.

That said, death to A Wyatt Mann. Inshallah.

  • anthm17 [he/him]
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    It's also possible not to lib things up to the point where you are equating terrorist attacks and murders with cartoons.

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        Like, I’m not saying that the dude was justified but the whole thing was fucking predictable

        Like, I’m not saying that the dude was justified but the whole thing was fucking predictable just look at what she was wearing.

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            I don't think you're a rape apologist, I think your statements sound like a rape apologist.

            A teacher taught about these cartoons, in response terrorists went this home and beheaded him.

            Your comment

            Like, I’m not saying that the dude was justified but the whole thing was fucking predictable

            You deserved the comparison.

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            Satire, when done from a position of power, is just bullying.

            All mass media satire is done from a position of power.

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      Take notice that people's issue isn't work the cartoon, it's with the government response and rhetoric.

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        Publishing racist cartoons: the most sacred right in France

        ?