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The Intercept also posted a similar piece, in article form: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/09/solidarity-charlie-hebdo-cartoons/ https://firstlook.o
by filoeleven 12y ago
The Intercept also posted a similar piece, in article form: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/09/solidarity-charlie-hebdo-cartoons/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/09/solidarity-cha...
An excerpt:
But this week’s defense of free speech rights was so spirited that it gave rise to a brand new principle: to defend free speech, one not only defends the right to disseminate the speech, but embraces the content of the speech itself. Numerous writers thus demanded: to show “solidarity” with the murdered cartoonists, one should not merely condemn the attacks and defend the right of the cartoonists to publish, but should publish and even celebrate those cartoons. “The best response to Charlie Hebdo attack,” announced Slate’s editor Jacob Weisberg, “is to escalate blasphemous satire.”