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.

  • GrandAyatollaLenin [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I'm not going to get into the murder itself. It's obvious who's innocent and who's guilty, and I'd say they handled it well. The teacher did well, the pigs killed the bad guy, and then the French just. Kept. Going.

    The guilty party is dead. They're not going to see this. These cartoon projections will only be seen by innocent people, Muslim and non-Muslim alike. So what's going on? They're insulting a whole religion in response to an act of terror. If any Chud did this, we'd rightfully call it out as an act of racism, or at least old Chapo would. Instead, the government is doing it. They're going out of their way to violate the practices and sensibilities of a minority they've been persecuting for centuries and which continues to suffer violent hate crimes to this day.