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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
I agree with Diane that it really is a Timmy argument -- Sorry Ty. I winced when i saw that was where you were going.
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Yeah, I basically agree. I have an intuition that the Danish thing is more offensive to Moslems than the Serrano thing was to Christians, but I think it's more that Christians object to what Serrano was doing rather than to newspapers running stories about it.
As for Less's point about republication: I'm not sure. I was really talking about the Danish cartoon that first ran the thing, before the protests, trying to piss people off. I guess I still think that republishing to piss them off shows some degree of insecurity, and that ignoring them would be stronger.
eta: I mostly don't understand why people give a shit about this. Censorship is wrong. Violence is wrong. Offending people is wrong. Condemning Christians doesn't mean you support everything Moslems do, and vice versa.
