I'm sorry, but I can't let you say that charlie hebdo was a racist magazine... it's simply false, they were fundamentally against institutionalized religions, that's true... whatever they are, but racist certainly not... it was a satyrical political magazine...
Quentin 2015-01-11 7:09 GMT+01:00 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com>: > > > > > *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: > everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR > > > > On 11 January 2015 at 15:50, Samiya Illias <samiyaill...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When people criticise others' faiths, firstly it hurts others feeling > making the criticism fall on deaf ears. > > > > >>When people criticise others' faiths, it's more than feelings that get > hurt. > > > > Have you seen the cartoons… that went beyond criticizing or poking fun at > someone else’s faith… the portrayal of the prophet (for those of that > faith) is obscene, insulting, gratuitously degrading in overt sexual manner > meant purely to offend. It has no redeeming quality to it. They published a > stream of disgusting bigoted religious, ethnic and racial stereotypes; not > just a single time – it was that papers bread and butter -- including such > gems as a stereotypical portrayal of pregnant African woman (with > exaggerated racially offensive features and fat post rape bellies) with the > caption casually and cruelly calling them welfare mothers. That is just > offensive to me, in the fucking extreme. It is pornographically ugly racist > & sexist hate speech to portray those underage victims like that – IMO. > > I defend their right of free speech in the same manner as I defend the > right of the KKK or Nazi skinheads to march. Free speech is only free as > long as it extends to even the most obnoxious hate groups (including the > racist newspaper Charlie Hebdo)… Free speech extends to racists, fascists, > sectarian, nationalist, and ethnocentric bigots. I abhor their message, yet > support their right to speech **on principal** -- even though they would > and are doing their best to take away my freedom of speech. > > But there is nothing noble or ennobling about Charlie Hebdo, or the > hateful racist people who made a living producing and disseminating such > racist filth and ethnic hatred. The person I feel sorry for is that poor on > duty cop, who got wasted. As for the editor and staff they got the Darwin > Award as far as I am concerned. Fuck them, they were fucking racist > assholes who did their best to make this world uglier and bring it down to > their level. > > The Takfiri Salafist brainwashed assholes who did this are also exemplars > of the same disease, coming from a different direction. Nor am I sad that > they are dead either. > > I abhor and condemn their actions, and don’t think anybody should die for > expressing their thoughts – even if those thoughts are repugnant racist > crap like Charlie Hebdo excelled at sullying the earth with. But in the > same breath, I find nothing, even remotely admirable in the ugly > stereotyping ethnic hatred that was their staple fare. > > Nor do I mourn their loss, they did their level best to piss off 1.2 > billion people on this planet and eventually some really pissed off violent > crazies – from the group their hate speech targeted – took matters into > their own murderous hands. > > It also would have been much preferable if the terrorists had been > captured alive, so they could have been tried for their crimes like common > criminals. > > -Chris > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
