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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper
Because there isn't anything to reconcile. Either we're all free speech absolutists, or we're not. I've learned over the years that I am not, and I don't think that many people are either, it's just that they all pretend they are.
Depicting Mohammed pissed off 1.5-2billion people, whereas the guardian cartoon only pissed off 2-300k Jews that live in the UK, so surely guardian cartons are better (turning your framing around)?
A religion is made up of people too, however hard you try to make it about a faceless religion versus one living man.
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The Gary Lineker and Mae Muller scenarios make me believe you on some people all of a sudden being anti-free speech when they're normally pro.
I'm not just talking about on TIBB, I saw some people on other sites wanting those two silenced just for having an opinion that didn't align with their own viewpoint.