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12698055, Aw, you are so cute when you're mad.
Posted by ConcreteCharlie, Wed Jan-14-15 08:08 AM
It's about violence being a trump card and I'd feel EXACTLY the same if the shoe were on the other foot. I got into this one day with a professor (also Jewish) who was presenting white supremacist rallies in Chicago as an example of speech that should be chilled, essentially, and later debating whether or not Al Qaeda and the like should have their messages broadcast on U.S. TV.

The bottom line to me is that there should be a very free exchange of ideas and that goes to the ideas I don't agree with. To be honest I haven't even seen the majority of the Charlie cartoons. I don't have to. They could be totally reprehensible. They have a right to exist and so do the people who made them, and I'm certainly not sympathizing with murderers (and their sympathizers) over someone who's simply an asshole or a bigot.