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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]got this facebook link from a friend which details some of the Charlie Hebdo 'cartoons'. I have to say I found them beyond the pale, and more than satire
http://themarooncolony.com/2015/01/08/jenesuispascharlie/
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So what? That's your opinion. Some people find it hilarious. To each his own. The point is, Free Speech is what is important, even to say things that you, personally, find "beyond the pale."[/quote]

free speech isn't really free speech.

A western cartoonist can make muslim and christian satire.

If said cartoonist made jewish satire, AIPIC and the ADL will link them to 1930's cartoons and blackball said cartoonist from ever getting a job again.

The different in opportunity cost is staggering and completely makes a mockery out of free speech. [/quote]

Again, so what? That is the price they pay. If I own a business and make some stupid, outrageous comments, people are free to boycott my business so that I fail. I still have "free speech" to say whatever I want. [/quote]I think what's being misunderstood is that if you take away my free speech, I'm making sure yours is being taken away too.  That's why the attorneys for the Skokie nazis were adamant about protecting their free speech so the Jews would be able to argue with the same ferocity and their free speech rights not be stifled.  I remember it well.[/quote]

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