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oberliner

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12. Their "clash of extremists" take on this tragedy
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 07:17 AM
Jan 2015

I cited this Guardian article in response to another poster

Relevant excerpts:

“Defending freedom of expression in the face of oppression is one thing; insisting on the right to be obnoxious and offensive just because you can is infantile. Baiting extremists isn’t bravely defiant when your manner of doing so is more significant in offending millions of moderate people as well. And within a climate where violent response – however illegitimate – is a real risk, taking a goading stand on a principle virtually no one contests is worse than pointless: it’s pointlessly all about you.”
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“What Charlie Hebdo did was not free speech it was an abuse of free speech in my opinion,” he said. “Go back to the cartoons and have a look at them! It’s not about what the drawing said, it was about how they said it.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/11/al-jazeera-leak-charlie-hebdo-emails

In my humble opinion, AJ has been presenting the cartoonists and those that killed them as two sides of the same extremist coin.

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