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.

  • eiknat [she/her,ey/em]
    4·
    4 years ago

    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.

    • CatherineTheSoSo [any]
      3·
      4 years ago

      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.

      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.

      • eiknat [she/her,ey/em]
        1·
        4 years ago

        i wish i had been more clear because i intending to refer to minorities oops

    • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
      8·
      4 years ago

      I'd happily offend a white supremacist, or some other anti progressive. Religion is the same. It's based on nothing, and is often anti progressive. I believe that islam, christianity, etc etc, are all wrong and should be derided and mocked on the daily.

      • SheetsOfLenin [he/him]
        3·
        4 years ago

        This is fucking stupid and are the callous and childish opinions that come from internet atheist bullshit. Go speak to religious people, leaders, comrades, organizers, or just average fucking workers: literally no one will want to be around you if you act like this.

        People should be liberated from their oppressive circumstances like those of patriarchy so common in institutionalized religion, but it should also include proselytizing smarmy white kids who think they're logic gods. Imagine calling yourself a marxist and your praxis is being an asshole to religious individuals