(January 1, 2025 at 12:18 pm)Istvan Wrote: And yeah, free speech has become a right wing dog whistle that makes baiting Muslims with racist Charlie Hebdo cartoons seem noble and blameless. Hey, draw caricatures of Mohammed all day long if you want, but just know who you're in cahoots with when you're doodling.
By all means, criticize those who create those caricatures and call them out, if you wish. They shouldn't be protected from criticism.
They also shouldn't be murdered for doing it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
