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Old 01-05-2023, 10:07 AM #1
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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper View Post
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.
How do you reconcile being against blasphemy laws, while also thinking that cartoons of Mo shouldn't be printed? Depicting him only goes against a religion, which is different to offensively portraying a living person.
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