I started from the beginning of the thread and started opening new tabs with all the things I wanted to quote. When I got to 15 on the first 2 pages, I closed them all, and I will settle for this.
Maleficence said:
ITT: Posters ignore culture and history when commenting on something heavily influenced by culture and history
Maleficence said:
And what exactly is a religion indigenous to the USA? Mayan?
Fuck. Seriously. I don't know if you're even reading this thread anymore but your sequence of posts, on the first page have made me angrier over this issue than I have ever been.
Anyway,
Shaka said:
I doubt this will accomplish shit. Don't fool yourself. The radicals will still be radicals and they'll probably view this as a western attack on them.
It
is a western attack on them. This is what an organized American attack on Islamic fundamentalists looks like. A bunch of people got together on the internet and shared drawings of a guy with each other.
No, it won't do shit.
Yes, radicals will still be radicals.
The best criticism that could be leveled at this event is that it's offensive. Another one would be that it's a little silly.
I hope we all agree that at the very least it is neither radical nor violent.
We live in a global society. Part of belonging to that society means getting offended every once in a while. It's both literally and metaphorically part of growing up.
If anyone out there is still confused,
how one reacts to being offended when it does happen is what demonstrates whether or not they're ready to participate in the same society as 99% of the rest of the world. Most people want to live quiet lives, with their loved ones, their faith, their hobbies, their newspapers, their videogames, their sports teams. A fanatical fringe one hundred times smaller and one hundred times louder than the rest of us is to blame for the "controversy" present in this thread.
In a free society, you get to say whatever you want. You do. Sometimes you will say things that offend people and sometimes people will be offended by what you say. That's just the way it goes. Threatening the lief of someone who offended you goes beyond "saying what you want." It is an act of violence. Physical acts of violence, directly incited or indirectly inspired, may well follow.
Anyway, I hope we're all on the same page, and if you're wondering, I will be drawing an extremely simplistic depiction of the prophet on May 20th.
