By Matt Bors
Idiot Box: Yay Comics!
Editorial cartoonist Matt Bors surveys the various “off” responses to satirical cartoons and the violence recently perpetrated because of them — satirizing himself in the process.
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Folk need to relax. People need to chill the fuck out (you can tell by my verbiage that I’m an associate of the tense).
Some people are just dick’s. It’s an ego implosion.
It’s gonna be a long trip to understanding.
Laugh your ass off the whole way.. and Love as much as you can.
(Don’t bury yourself too soon.. the work ain’t done.)
Jere
http://imgur.com/a/zd5rl/
lost in translation:
https://ricochet.media/en/292/lost-in-translation-charlie-hebdo-free-speech-and-the-unilingual-left
Thanks for the link, Pam … everything I read these days sets me to pondering. Was trying to imagine what the US equivalent of forbidding a headscarf would be and then I recalled a pending Pub proposal in Oklahoma banning hoodies. As front-runners in the race for anti-modernity, OK takes the prize. In 2010, OK amended its constitution to ban Sharia (and/or all foreign) laws but it was overturned by the US Court of Appeals as unconstitutional in 2012. Hoodie sales will no doubt suffer, as will the hope for open minds in the Sooner state.
Yes Jude we liked it too – a friend commented that you can’t legislate compassion it is a political will – like the press never mentioned that Roosevelt was often in a wheelchair – it not being relevant to his political role.
Probably respect and freedom of speech don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Is choosing your words or how to say something the same as censorship. Is it important to say no to ‘spin’ and to decide for yourself.