• foxodroid [she/her]
      1·
      4 years ago

      I would never blame a European for not caring what happens in Malaysia. People have limited time and energy to care. And obviously the threat close home matters most.

      Hell I don't care what happens in the US or EU unless it possibly concerns Arabs and I don't expect foreigners to follow our local news. That's not a sign of hypocrisy.

      On principle alone drawing Mohamed isn't wrong and no one should have to observe religious teachings they don't believe in.

        • foxodroid [she/her]
          2·
          4 years ago

          it really just comes down to bullying a minority population who doesnt have much in the way of political power here.

          I don't even know where to start with this take. Calling drawing some cartoon "bullying" is extremely over dramatic. Not a racist cartoon, not a pro-imperialism or violence one, but a cartoon of a religious figure known for pedophilia and violence. No other group would consider religious satire bullying like this.

          Ultimately there's nothing immoral without showing derision towards religion, even a minority one.

          Asfor political power, where i'm standing all the way back in Tunisia, we're rarely capable of directly criticizing religion or mocking it the way it's possible in the West. But i would still want the Arab world to be exposed to those ideas, it breaks the taboo around them, and normalising that makes it easier to talk about later here. So it's crucial for these topics to be handled where there is space for it but absolutely tragic that the left stupidly allows the right to control this topic. Then we end up with people like Sam Harris justifying nuking Iran and torturing Iraqis. 15 years ago no one talked about LGBT people or atheism, hell i hadn't heard of the mere concepts until my late teens, didn't know it's a thing that exists. It noticably shifted the overton window.

          It just feeds all the people looking for a fight and leaves a trail of collateral damage for really no reason.

          If the fight started because a random person did a thing that's perfectly moral, is that person the one at wrong?