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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Mon May 4, 2015, 12:54 PM May 2015

Now I'm curious. Where does DU stand on Theo van Gogh's movie "Submission"?

It was a documentary based on sub-Saharan patterns of FGM.

He was shot and killed over it.

Would anybody like to call him a "provocateur" for that?

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Now I'm curious. Where does DU stand on Theo van Gogh's movie "Submission"? (Original Post) Recursion May 2015 OP

Does "DU" have to agree on everything? We're not a BORG....! MADem May 2015 #1

No, I'm clearly calling out a DU subset Recursion May 2015 #2

Ahhh, so this is a continuation of a previous discussion? MADem May 2015 #3

MADem

(135,425 posts)

1. Does "DU" have to agree on everything? We're not a BORG....!

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Mon May 4, 2015, 12:58 PM

May 2015

I would hope that people would agree that people shouldn't be murdered for speech, provoking or otherwise.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

2. No, I'm clearly calling out a DU subset

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Mon May 4, 2015, 01:00 PM

May 2015

I should probably have been more artful about it.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

3. Ahhh, so this is a continuation of a previous discussion?

Reply to Recursion (Reply #2)

Mon May 4, 2015, 01:30 PM

May 2015

I'm not a fan of murder as a consequence of speech--even hate speech. I think it's a bit OTT when censorship by death is the solution to a disagreeable, disgusting or divisive declaration!

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