Handy rule
Atrios responds to the ongoing cartoon debacle:
Seems about right.
On the other hand, "don't be an asshole" about peoples' religious beliefs when they aren't trying to impose them on you seems to be reasonably good etiquette.
Seems about right.
posted by onlooker at 5:07 PM
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Anything to raise tensions between Europe and the Islamic world is music to the ears of the neocons. What a nice convenient episode to help the US cause.
"no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or beliefs; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain. their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
--Thomas Jefferson
"if he insults you with a comic on the right page, let him insult you with a comic on the left..."
--tolerance
so if one threatens with angry mobs and death, censorship is ok?
but its okay, if you know you won't be threatened with mobs and death?
seems a little hypocritical
finally, just curious if the ACLU is going to extend the Danish a hand?
I think that the Danish and other European papers have a clear right to publish whatever they want, and that such a right ought to be defended.
However, there's a difference between defending that right and thinking that the way the cartoonist practiced it was a smart thing to do. You have the freedom to act like a dick, but that doesn't mean you should.
finally, I think the "A" in ACLU suggests that they might not feel obliged to help, and also the fact that they're lawyers and not riot police makes them less than useful to the danes right now. No one is mounting a legal challenge to freedom of the press (as far as I've heard), but reacting with violence (also stupid).
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