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> It's about the right of those who believe religion to be worthy of extreme parody because they fundamentally disagree with it. You don't have to fundamentall
by bostonpete 12y ago
> It's about the right of those who believe religion to be worthy of extreme parody because they fundamentally disagree with it.
You don't have to fundamentally disagree with religion in order to believe that parody should be protected speech.
Free speech is the political right to communicate one's opinions and ideas. It doesn't imply a right to disclose any and all information about about any person or organization that you may have access to, or to make extreme threats, or to yell fire in a crowded theater, etc. Just because a literal interpretation of the phrase "free speech" might imply such a meaning to you, that's not how the term is conventionally used or interpreted.
- blazespin 12y agoYou're merely making my point for me. You have just said exactly what I have said. That you're not allowed to say whatever you want to say. And so there are many people who are saying that what Charlie Hebdo is doing is the equivalent of hate speech or some other form of speech which is not protected. What we should be saying is what this speech is and why it's not hate speech and why we should be willing to go to war over it, because nobody is willing to go war over "free speech" which does not really exist.