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In reply to the discussion: On free speech: consider if the Charlie Hebdo episode happened here. Whose fault is it? [View all]katsy
(4,246 posts)9. Not sure how to approach this, but
Hebdo was the victim as is PP in this case.
Both victims have every right to legally operate their business.
No duty is owed by the victims IMO other than they operate legally.
In both cases, the gunmen are to blame. IF that is far as the story goes. Both cases are crimes.
But that is NOT the whole story. Religious fanatics fuel the hatred and pit religious beliefs against society's laws protecting civil rights.
It gets murky. But if religious zealousness fuels already compromised mental states of people to take matters into their own hands and kill the threats to their beliefs... Then IMO maybe it's not that anyone is infringing upon religious freedom of free speech so much as it is religious bigots inciting hate crimes.
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On free speech: consider if the Charlie Hebdo episode happened here. Whose fault is it? [View all]
hill2016
Nov 2015
OP
I confess I wasn't a subscriber to Charlie Hebdo so I haven't seen everything
riderinthestorm
Nov 2015
#10
There was a cartoon that depicted a number of black, pregnant, veiled females.
guillaumeb
Nov 2015
#26
You are like the XiXth century anthropologist shocked because the natives are naked.
Yorktown
Dec 2015
#64
I described a quebecquois as having anglo PCness because of the country culture obviously
Yorktown
Dec 2015
#68
Oh, OK, past history is proof of current opinions? Such a fine basis for reasoning.
Yorktown
Dec 2015
#85
You actually admit to blaming victims? Where do you stand on short skirts and women who go to bars?
CBGLuthier
Nov 2015
#58
Only religious persons can be blasphemous. And most of them are, constantly.
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2015
#2
The gunmen are responsible, fully. The same would be true if cartoonists sought out
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2015
#47
the correct response to a magazine cartoon u dont like is laughter and ridicule IMO nt
msongs
Nov 2015
#48
I mock anyone who believes in a giant invisble sky-man who is obsessed with your private parts
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2015
#79
Some people here really don't understand the 1st Amendment. These threads prove it.
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2015
#78