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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by _nedR on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @08:39AM (#8879675)
Beg your pardon. I find the exact opposite as true. People today, are generally careful and sensitive about what they say about Jews or black people, because they don't want to be labelled as anti-semitic or racist. Muslims seems to be the only minority you can criticize and be politically correct.

Consider the following statement :

"Maybe most Jews are peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing zionist cancer they must be held responsible"

Is the above sentence racist? anti-semitic? Blood libel? Incitement to hatred and violence? Possibly prosecutable?

Well here is what Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, the head of one of the largest media organisations in the world tweeted a few days back :

"Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible."

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by amirmc on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @08:57AM (#8879820)
And here's the tweet itself. https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/553734788881076225

I'm pretty sure that if he'd said this about Jews, it would not have had 7k retweets and he'd also have been forced to 'apologise'.

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by fit2rule on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @08:46AM (#8879732)
Maybe most Americans are peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing military-industrialist cancer they must be held responsible.
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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @09:02AM (#8879850)
Maybe most Kerbals are safety-conscious, but until they recognize and strut up their growing pile of solid rocket boosters at the launchpad they must be held responsible...

... oh wait, I forgot it's not Reddit.

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by tomp on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @08:56AM (#8879813)
To be fair, I think you're pretty free to criticize the more extremist aspects of Judaism, such as circumcision (yes, they scream "antisemitism", but nobody takes them seriously), the ultra-orthodox political campaigns in Israel (e.g. that men and women should walk on opposite sidewalks). Also, they don't seem to have as many idiotic rules as Muslims (no depictions of Yahweh? or at least I don't know about them, and they take them much less seriously).
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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by _nedR on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @09:14AM (#8879935)
>> I think you're pretty free to criticize the more extremist aspects of Judaism, such as circumcision (yes, they scream "antisemitism", but nobody takes them seriously),

Well I don't think many jews, or muslims for that matter (muslims do it too) would be offended by a reasoned criticism of circumcision. It is usually the hot topics like Israeli actions, or depiction of Prophet Muhammad that seems to trigger passions.

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by tomp on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @09:36AM (#8880076)
There was quite a scandal in Germany recently, when a court ruled that circumcision was illegal, and both Muslims and Jews threw a fit, saying that Nazism is back.
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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by _nedR on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @09:53AM (#8880167)
Well. Then it no longer is criticism, is it?

You are essentially taking away their right to do something.

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by tomp on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @03:19PM (#8882310)
> You are essentially taking away their right to do something.

Like... harming other people, specifically children? Oh, they are so oppressed /s

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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by kbart on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @09:46AM (#8880131)
Exactly. Glenn Greenwald posted a great article on Intercept about this topic yesterday. Worth reading.
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Re:Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts pr... by filoeleven on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @02:20PM (#8881900)
I was going to respond with the same thing. Since you beat me to it, here's the link: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/09/solidarity-cha...
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