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.

      • SeizeTheseMeans [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        atheism or agnosticism - both are consistent with a leftist perspective. I can also see how a religious framework could lead way to agreeing with socialism or communism. There are religious texts and then there are religious institutions. Often there are readings of texts that are fundamentally at odds with many of the institutions that inhabit and lay claim to a specific territory. Think of your local church or religion you or someone you know grew up in. One can be religious and not be beholden to an institution. This is the way that opposition to religion can make sense. Do not oppose essentially any religious text that adheres to spiritual matters. Oppose institutions that seek to impose their interpretations of religious texts upon the world by force or through dubious authority.

        This is my actual and honest position on religion