Rcc thinks Charlie Hebdo is the devil

[Brian37]

This cartoon will never go out of date,
sadly:



Now that's how satire works.

That's ok satire. But there is satire that goes beyond what in my opinion is ok.

Funny how every religion looks at the "blasphemy" or "satire" of others and are fine with it, but when the ridicule is aimed at their own beliefs suddenly it is hands off.

Issac Hays did the voice for Chef on South Park, he had no problem with the cartoon making fun of Christians and Jews and atheists but quit when they got to his own Scientology. This was a cartoon that had a statue of Marry bleeding out of her ass. A cartoon that has Cartman calling his friend a "fucking Jew" and another episode where they had atheists shitting out of their mouths. 

But what is missed in that cartoon that the right wingers and even liberals miss in hating it, is that it is not there just to "offend" but to get people to think, and to say, "If you cant laugh at yourself nobody will laugh with you". The common motif at the end of each episode has one of the Characters basically saying "We are all in this together despite our differences".

Now see here is the problem with trying to determine what is or is not offensive. Everyone has their own ideas of what is or is not offensive. Every single one of us can think of things that people print that offend us. So the problem is "Who gets to decide?". That becomes a problem with competing views. So in the civil west we simply put the only restrictions we can all agree on, and that is no acts of violence, or calls to violence. And we set limits as to age appropriate material, such as not selling porn to a 5 year old. But outside that, it does not matter what I like or you like because something at some point will offend both of us. We can only agree not to act out in violence when we get offended.

Blanket solutions of "never say this, or never depict that" are a dangerous game for any label to adapt. As far as speech, it can as it should, be taken only as a case by case basis and it depends.