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.

  • qublics [they/them,she/her]
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    4 years ago

    The common ground between them is that they’re all based on absolutely nothing objective.

    Honestly the main reason I have qualms about being overtly against Islam is that for many people it's not a choice at all.
    Islam like many other religions can be very unkind to its defectors.

    I'll gladly criticize specific Islamic leaders, how the religion mistreats its own people, and its reactionary doctrines.
    But resorting to mockery, not even aimed at any specific religious apologist, just no thanks.

    There are too many people stuck in the middle: derided by a racist and Islamophobic society, but unable to simply leave that religion even if they have long rejected its doctrines.