Danish islamic cartoons part 2
Adding some "fair and balanced" coverage to yesterday's post.
"This one is racist" "This one is anti-semitic"
"And these fall under 'free speech'"
The cartoonist does have a very good point. Then again I think it's possible to read this comic both ways: there are no laws against publishing racist, antisemitic comics. People who object to the comics can (and do) protest their publication. But there's a difference between condemning racism or religious intolerance and calling for the destruction of the people responsible for those statements or censorship of the media those statements are carried in. And it's certainly unacceptable to threaten to kill a cartoonist or an entire continent (" Europe you will pay 9/11 is on its way") due to objectionable speech by one of its cartoonists: racist, antisemitic, or otherwise.
People get to say anything they want. And you get to protest anything that you want. But that's all they get to do, and that's all you get to do: everything else gets decided by diplomats and in courts. Welcome to the civilized world.
(Via Al Ghad, Jordan.)
"This one is racist" "This one is anti-semitic"
"And these fall under 'free speech'"
The cartoonist does have a very good point. Then again I think it's possible to read this comic both ways: there are no laws against publishing racist, antisemitic comics. People who object to the comics can (and do) protest their publication. But there's a difference between condemning racism or religious intolerance and calling for the destruction of the people responsible for those statements or censorship of the media those statements are carried in. And it's certainly unacceptable to threaten to kill a cartoonist or an entire continent (" Europe you will pay 9/11 is on its way") due to objectionable speech by one of its cartoonists: racist, antisemitic, or otherwise.
People get to say anything they want. And you get to protest anything that you want. But that's all they get to do, and that's all you get to do: everything else gets decided by diplomats and in courts. Welcome to the civilized world.
(Via Al Ghad, Jordan.)