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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
So what made you become in favour of blasphemy laws since then?
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Again, it's all about your framing.
My post was about the free speech beliefs, and had nothing to do with the motivations of the separate authors/illustrators.
I'm still completely against blasphemy laws, but I was pointing out the unsurprising difference of folks cheering when it's an attempt to piss off a community that is viewed as less than, when both situations produced cartoons offensive to minorities.
It's still entirely consistent to think that these cartoons are both anti-Semitic, and perfectly fine to print in newspapers if our motivations are purely free speech based. My point, is that they're not.