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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you support Geller's right to free speech then you have no case to stop the distribution of anti-semitic flyers. To me both are outrageous and despicable but one cannot pick and choose what are acceptable insults and falsehoods - and in the same breath support free speech.[/quote] Gellar wants to display a cartoon on Metro showing two men talking. One says "You can't draw me" and the other says 'that is why I must draw you" Can you please tell me why this is despicable? There is no incitement to violence, no stereotyping, nothing even anti-Muslim. By no standard can this be considered hate speech. [/quote] One man is pictured. That man happens to be Muhammad, not just some run-of-the-mill guy. He is presented holding a sword. The real Muhammad never told anyone they couldn't draw him. The picture is based on negative stereotyping. More importantly, you can't divorce any of Geller's actions from her history of anti-Islamic hatred. The proposed poster is part of an ongoing campaign -- not to support free speech (something Geller's opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque showed she doesn't actually support) -- but to spread her campaign of hatred. All of that said, I'm not sure the Metro decision was the best one. I would prefer to see the posters run and provoke a strong reaction of disgust from the general public much in the manner of the flyers that are the topic of this thread. As I have said in other threads, Geller should be treated exactly as an anti-Semite or white supremacist would be treated. [/quote]
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