Satire Does Not Always Involve Humor. The Most Powerful Satire Never Does.

[MADem]

175. No, you don't want to censor him--you want to bully him into censoring himself?

So much for the solution to speech being more speech!

You keep trying to drag out that "victim blaming" term, and the more you repeat it, the less effect it has. Risk assessment is not victim blaming, no matter how often you repeat the phrase.

And trying to compare this political cartoon business with rape is a bridge too far. Who is the young lady with the skirt? The crude drawings of Mohamet? The publisher? I mean, come on--some analogies do not fly, and that's one of 'em.

As for NYC's points, I guess we won't know them, since you've hectored him into deleting his posts, and all you can recall of them is that you are angry with the guy.

The bigger point, though, is this--of all these "victim blamers" that are being touted, there's only been one guy dragged out, shoved in the stocks, and put on display--and that's a guy who can't even be quoted because his posts are deleted!

I think you need to just let the guy go--you're the only one who really cares what he thinks. I just can't get excited about one person's opinions about risk, carelessness, or even "blame"--not that I've seen any quote that proves he was saying any such thing.

FWIW, this kind of thing has happened before. We have bollards in front of buildings as a consequence of truck bombs. We have concentric layers of security on installations that most people don't even notice because of things we've learned as a consequence of having secrets stolen. Every time there's an act of violence, be it a discotheque in Germany getting blown up or a car bomb tossing a limo over a wall, we learn something about elevating a security posture. You see carabinieri with submachine guns in the airports of Italy because some jerks shot up the joint. Every time an attache is assassinated, or a plane gets hijacked, we adjust and sad lessons are learned. This event will be added to the learning curve.