I was just talking to a relative, who lives in France.

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10. I was attacked for saying that it was cheap vulgar humor, but that it might have made a profit.

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And I was attacked for not agreeing with people who seem to think it was noble and important free-expression and yada yada yada.

Attacked for freely expressing a very harmless minority opinion by people claiming to be fighters for free expression. The irony!

Well, look at how much of our media is designed around shock value, and it's usually the most vacuous absent of content material you will find.

It usually comes for the extremist sides of whatever matter is at hand, pro or con, like animal rights or the environment or guns or religion, the two sides of an issue become hyperbolic and the expressions of that extremism are often pretty strange.

And they are provocative.

I feel for all the victims, and especially for the victims who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

They had nothing to gain by the publication of the rude and mean cartoons, but lost it all.