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« on: January 16, 2015, 11:02:34 pm » |
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I truly expect to be put on a lot of ignore lists of posters I otherwise respect for this, but I will say it anyway:
Islamophobia is the height (depths) of cheap populism and political-correctness in Europe right now. There is no quicker way to gain mass popularity in Europe than by playing to the rafters.
Charlie Hebdo was a publication that produced cartoons as witty and subtle, and thought provoking, and insightful, as a Jack Chick tract. Both are scurrilous, but whereas Jack Chick aimed to convert, Charlie Hebdo aimed to demean. Demean whom? Ridiculous, hate-spewing Saudi clerics? -- no. The French Muslims living in the environs of Paris -- yes.
Jack Chick and Charlie Hebdo are both protected by freedom of speech, freedom of belief, and its corollary "freedom to offend". But it is ugly and unfair to imply that anyone who disagrees with the "comedy" or "social value" of Charlie Hebdo and the like has failing reasoning ability or is a bad citizen. People have the right and obligation to refuse demagoguery of that sort.
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