Comments | orig_rune: Comedy Central Wimps Out

orig_rune

Comedy Central Wimps Out

Apr 14, 2006 15:23

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are mad at Comedy Central now. Why? Well, because CC censored their most recent episode.

The two-part episode was making a point about self-censorship motivated by fear, a growing thing in recent years. The most notable recent story was the Danish papers daring to depict Mohammad. Never mind that Denmark wasn't an ( Read more... )

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hakeber April 15 2006, 00:59:55 UTC

Yes. And let's add to that that most of Islam takes a very dim view of any of their own converting to any other religion. It's like the Dark Ages all over again.

kakoukorakos April 15 2006, 01:40:09 UTC

Spot-on.

genmaicha April 15 2006, 01:45:58 UTC

Followed hakeber's link here. Well said. Made me realize a shift in my perception of this religion. They don't expect me to visit Mecca, but my life could well be considered forfeit if I drew their prophet and word of that spread. Scary.

stoda April 15 2006, 02:06:12 UTC

Perhaps people need to put the title "Mohammad" beneath every image they can find.

These are a people lost from the spirit of the message, bound up in the word and law of it.

Seems to be a lot of that going around, lately. Fanatics, of any ilk, are not a good thing.

orig_rune April 15 2006, 02:36:29 UTC

That's the proper cure! Put so much out there they can't find anything offensive for the noise!

The solution is not stopping it, it is increasing it.

"Yeah, we disrespect religions and their symbols on occasion. Get used to it. You are no better than the Scientologists when it comes time to point out your silliness. You destroy Bibles and persecute Christians and Jews. Why should we respect your taboos and beliefs if you don't respect anyone else's?"

They want a one-way street. We are giving in to them when we should be adding lanes, on and off ramps, and lanes going in every direction.

iron_raptor April 15 2006, 02:35:52 UTC

I'm thinking we should sell the cartoons printed on T-shirts to protest this. I'm getting sick of the P.C. world we live in.

iron_raptor April 15 2006, 18:41:29 UTC

Somebody is selling shirts with at least one of the Danish cartoons on them, the one with "Mohammad's" head as a bomb. Saw it somewhere in my travels. Have to find it.

Wonder if anyone will have the nerve to wear it anywhere one of the faithful can see it. Theo van Gogh volunteers?