An exhibition of Holocaust-themed cartoons has gone on display in Tehran. This is a response to those goddamn Danish cartoons. [link]
This strikes me as an appropriate response: fight offensiveness with offensiveness.
I'm all for freedom of speech and I'll quite happily defend anyone's rights to write and publish any sort of cartoon they want to, even if it is ill advised. But look at it this way:
You have the freedom to call your boss an ugly bald frog.
You have the right to call your mother a whore.
You have the right to call that mean-looking guy in the Slayer t-shirt a girly swot.
You've even got the right to say that you own Malibu and that Jews are responsible for all the evil in the world.
But if you do, don't expect to be able to screech "Freedom of speech!" and magically escape the consequences of what you've said.
Posted by pearce at August 15, 2006 3:53 PMWasn't there a Jewish newspaper who ran their own Holocaust-themed competition in reaction to that? I thought that was the best thing to come out of the Great Semitic Cartoon War Of 2006.
Posted by: dritchie at August 15, 2006 5:01 PMI didn't hear about that. I'd love to know more.
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