Novelist admits she was wrong to oppose Charlie Hebdo award

[AtheistCrusader]

3. SOME folks here REALLY need to understand and grok this.

I — like many, I now believe — fundamentally misunderstood Charlie Hebdo’s mission and content. The controversial images — while arguably tasteless, offensive and not even particularly well-drawn — sprang from satire, not hate. It is a profound and crucial difference: if one is to argue for freedom of speech there can be no caveats, no asterisks, no fine print qualifying that “freedom” only applies to expression we don’t consider too upsetting, or doesn’t enrage right-wing fundamentalists with guns.