[lit-ideas] Re: Link to "Mohammed" cartoons
- From: dsavory@xxxxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 17:20:43 -0800
> Eric: Sure there is. By privileging the offense to
> Muslims, you ignore the offense to those who value
> free expression, and wish to practice it in their
> own countries.
"Freedom of speech" is a misdirection argument, the rhetroical equivalent of a
magician giving you the wrong hand to look at. I have the freedom to walk up
to you and call you an asshole but I would have to be an insufferable idiot to
exercise that right without a really good reason.
By the way, an informal poll of two Muslims I work with told me they are upset
about the cartoons because there was no reason for them: they served no
purpose.
> And David Savory's "nigger" comparison is not apt.
> The drawings weren't "hate speech." They were
> devoid of ethnic/racial slurs.
That's not for you to decide. If the recipient of the slur calls it a slur
then you have a problem to deal with as if it were a slur. If I call you an
asshole it's not up to me to decide how offended you ought to feel. If you
tell me you're offended, I should believe you.
And you should believe me when I say I will say no more on this subject.
David Savory
Vancouver
David Savory
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