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Originally Posted by Captain Kawaii
It bugs me that I agree with everything you said.
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You know people throw around the term "Freedom of Speech" and in their minds it means they get to say, publish, etc absolutely anything and everything. Thankfully that's not the case because I know of at least 1 pornographer that would try to make child porn.
Everything has it's limits in life and more people should consider the families of the innocent victims that had NOTHING to do with either radical Islam or the cartoons.
ie: Little Francois asks his mother why his father was killed. And she's forced to tell him that his father got caught in the crossfire when some man drew a cartoon that another man didn't like.
(Nice epitaph to put on someone's tombstone.. "Gave his life for a cartoon")
In a perfect world only the gunmen and the magazine publisher and cartoonist would be affected. They can brutally murder each other with spoons for all I care. Unfortunately this isn't a perfect world and innocent people usually pay the price for someone else's argument.
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Originally Posted by Slappin Fish
France has some of the strictest anti racial-hatred laws in the world. They'll fine you for something as small as quoting statistical facts about prison population. This is not the 1930's.
You are out of order.
The very role of satirists is to challenge established powers, be they political parties or institutions like the Church. Nothing of what they wrote was hateful. Charlie Hebdo isn't a provocative anti-islam ultra nationalist publications. It's full of lefties. Their message was that nobody should be above criticism.
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1) You know nothing about France. The French are extremely racist and it's a very "COLD" form of racism that's ingrained in their bureaucracy and culture. At least in the United States a racist will call a man
nigger to his face. But many French people will smile politely simply say "the job has been filled and thank you for coming."
If you don't believe me then go live in France and just try and do something as minor as rent an apartment. Even if you're white with a suitcase of money you'll find it almost impossible because the French only want to deal avec des Français de souche and preferably those with a certain associated "prestige."
Like I said if you don't believe me then go to France and see for yourself. In fact I dare you.
2) It's was just a stupid cartoon and it didn't change anything or help anyone. And it certainly didn't warrant the death of innocent lives.
Mickey Mouse has brought a lot more joy and happiness into this world than Charlie Hebdo's drawings. But just the same I'm not going to give my life to defending Walt Disney's right to draw Mickey. Nor should anyone else.