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.
I feel like if you know something is going to upset people, why do it? it costs you nothing to just not publish an intentionally offensive piece. it doesn’t matter who the target is or what their reaction would be. why needlessly antagonize people? something like that just fuels extremism and validates the beliefs they have of outsiders.
I mean, it’s a weird sentiment for a community that tries to outdo itself every 9/11…
I guess there is a difference in trying to be offensive towards a minority.
i wish i had been more clear because i intending to refer to minorities oops