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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
He's not saying they shouldn't have the right to publish those comments.  He's saying they should have chosen not to.  There's no free speech implication there.  People object to what magazines publish all the time.  Unless there's an actual prevention of it or violence for it, this is just disagreement with that choice.  That's what free speech is supposed to be. [/quote]

You are tying yourself in knots. Again, he is not saying that he disagrees with what is said but defends the right to say it. He is saying that he disagrees with what was said and that it shouldn't have been said. Whether it shouldn't have been said due to law or choice doesn't really make a difference. Do you think that he would have accepted the suggestion that Charlie Hebdo should have chosen not to publish the anti-Muslim cartoons? Haven't we been told over and over again that a right that is not exercised is lost and that is why it was so important to publish offensive cartoons?

In simple terms, the lawyer defended publishing offensive material when Charlie Hebdo was publishing it, but criticized the publishing of material that offended him. The fact that he has the freedom to express his criticism doesn't relieve him of being a hypocrite. Neither does the fact that he chose to use words rather than guns to present his criticism relieve him of being a hypocrite.

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Sure it does.  He's stating his opinion that they shouldn't have said it.  If you said something really racist, I would say you shouldn't have said it.  That's not an attack on your free speech.  It's criticism. Unless he attempted to actually block that speech or violently retaliate for it, it's not about free speech.  Also, he's Charlie Hebdo's lawyer, not the other guy's lawyer.  Of course he advocates for Charlie Hebdo and not the other guy.  That's not what lawyers do.  [/quote]

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