think positive wrote:watt price tully wrote:Something about enough rope
haha, and there he is the third little duck!
if I go back far enough im sure I can find a similar, if not worse, sentiment against USA citizens here. or are white jokes allowed??
how about the freedom of speech for the cartoonists? not French?
What does this have to do with freedom of speech? Nobody has said that you can't post that image. The only comments have been that it is racist, violent and hateful. Such criticism does not curtail anyone's freedom.
Having said that, I don't necessarily believe that freedom of speech should be absolute. There's a reasonable argument that hate speech should be an exception, and if making straightforward jokes about murdering scores of Muslims isn't hate speech, it's pretty close.
Regardless of all that, how do you think you would feel if you were Muslim and you saw someone post that meme? What if your kids saw it?
Unlike Muslims, Americans aren't in serious danger of being violently targeted in this country. But even so, I don't think I've ever seen people on here laugh about the concept of slaughtering them, even ironically or as a form of comic exaggeration.
As I said, replace the word "Muslims" with "Jews" and you've pretty much got a regular post on Stormfront.
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange