Still on point: But if I had to summarize the point I was getting at, it’s that when we invoke free speech in an event like that which horribly unfolded in Charlie Hebdo‘s offices, it’s done in defense of a concept that just doesn’t exist. Whatever you mean by free speech isn’t so. In this case it was caricatures that fundamentally, by their very existence, violated the values (however tightly held) over a billion people on Earth, and second, were executed in a manner that relied on racial caricatures that, even if you’re not Muslim, are nevertheless kinda, maybe (absolutely) racist.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 05:24:05 +0000