"Draw Muhammad" shooting in Garland Texas

 
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Well they kind of were. The group that organized the event is known as an anti-Islam group, so it really isn't that surprising
Right, because being anti-Islam means you're just asking for somebody to come and put a bullet in your head. Just like wearing slutty clothes means you're asking for somebody to come and non-consensually fuck you in your arsehole. That's all this is: sophisticated victim blaming.

I don't give a flying fuck who you are, you're entitled to express your opinions and beliefs and others are entitled to challenge you on such matters. Even when it comes to bigotry. Being a neo-Nazi and holding rallies doesn't give a green light for militant Jews to try and fucking murder you.

Well, actually, it kind of does. Freedom of speech, or freedom of expression right?

You have the freedom of speech to walk up to a group of black people and do this.

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However, with their freedom of expression, they'd probably kill you. As such, this is why people withhold things. This is why people keep things private. You can say anything you want in reality. You can do anything you want.

But other people, will act differently based on what you say, and what you do.

Somebody might shrug you off if you called them a cunt in person. Another person might try to beat your ass.

Those people simply got the really deep end of the spectrum in terms of a reaction.

If we're going to argue freedom of speech here, or freedom of expression, then it's all or nothing.

There is no "Oh it's okay so long as you don't kill them." card. It's action, and reaction. And the severity of which both are done.
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However, with their freedom of expression, they'd probably kill you.
Is it freedom of expression if it's illegal?


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
However, with their freedom of expression, they'd probably kill you.
What? Since when was murdering a person commensurate with freedom of expression?


 
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Well they kind of were. The group that organized the event is known as an anti-Islam group, so it really isn't that surprising
Right, because being anti-Islam means you're just asking for somebody to come and put a bullet in your head. Just like wearing slutty clothes means you're asking for somebody to come and non-consensually fuck you in your arsehole. That's all this is: sophisticated victim blaming.

I don't give a flying fuck who you are, you're entitled to express your opinions and beliefs and others are entitled to challenge you on such matters. Even when it comes to bigotry. Being a neo-Nazi and holding rallies doesn't give a green light for militant Jews to try and fucking murder you.

Well, actually, it kind of does. Freedom of speech, or freedom of expression right?

You have the freedom of speech to walk up to a group of black people and do this.

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However, with their freedom of expression, they'd probably kill you. As such, this is why people withhold things. This is why people keep things private. You can say anything you want in reality. You can do anything you want.

But other people, will act differently based on what you say, and what you do.

Somebody might shrug you off if you called them a cunt in person. Another person might try to beat your ass.

Those people simply got the really deep end of the spectrum in terms of a reaction.

If we're going to argue freedom of speech here, or freedom of expression, then it's all or nothing.

There is no "Oh it's okay so long as you don't kill them." card. It's action, and reaction. And the severity of which both are done.
You can insult them back all you like, or protest in return. Murder doesn't fall under freedom of expression.

That still doesn't remove its reality. That doesn't make it all peachy and not capable of being done by anybody. You of all people should know this because you were born in a country that throws a fit when you take guns away. Take the guns away from the people and make all the laws you want to restrict them, a criminal is a criminal and therfore they'll still find a way to aqcuire guns.

Just because there's a barrier on paper, some words that say, "Oh but you can't do that," doesn't excuse reality.

I'm not saying what was done was right.

But denying that the far end of the spectrum in terms of reactions and forms of expression does not exist, is stupid. Even if it's illegal.

That's why you won't see me, or a single user here walk into a crowd of black people and shout niggers. Because we'd be fucking lynched.

Even though lynching is arguably illegal to do to somebody.


 
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However, with their freedom of expression, they'd probably kill you.
What? Since when was murdering a person commensurate with freedom of expression?

It is an expression. It's a reaction. What do you do when you react to something? You express yourself. All the shooting was, is a form of severity of expression. Where some people might form a crowd and go boo, some other people might take it seriously and go for a shootout.

It is, a form of expression because it's a response. It's a severe response. One that is most definitely not correct. But it still happened now didn't it?


 
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However, with their freedom of expression, they'd probably kill you.
Is it freedom of expression if it's illegal?

It certainly isn't a freedom. But that doesn't mean everybody follows the rules now do they? There's a word for people who do illegal things.

Criminals.



 
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One that is most definitely not correct. But it still happened now didn't it?
Which is why "freedom of expression" is a philosophical and legal bit of linguistics, which doesn't extend to all possible expressions in reaction to all possible behaviours. Expanding the definition isn't really helpful, and is intellectually uninteresting. Sure, Islamic militants are expressing themselves, but there's a clear conflict between the philosophical-legal consideration of such a freedom to do so and everybody else's freedom to do so.

To paraphrase Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jnr: your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. Freedom of expression means the freedom to peaceably express ideas and thoughts and opinions. . . Not the freedom to bomb people expressing dislikeable ideas.
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Last note here since I have to go.

Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, those established laws that protect certain forms of it are false. They're only protecting the arguably more decent aspects of expression and acting upon things.

And you can say that people going out and shooting up other people is an expression because it's a reaction. Getting angry at somebody slapping your girlfriends ass and beating them up is a reaction, and a form of expression. Taking a calmer yet very clear line of approach, is another form of a reaction and expression.

The only thing "Freedom of Speech" and "Freedom of Expression" do, is opt to the better side of expression.

So yes, that shooting falls not under freedom of expression, but it falls under expression because obviously somebody got pissed off about it and went out to shoot some people.

Was it right?

No.

Is it still a form of expression? Yes.

On a scale from severe to not severe, it was severe. It was, arguably, a bad form of expression. But still, an expression.

Did freedom of speech or expression stop the shooters?

No, because they obviously expressed their own opinions quite well now, didn't they?


 
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The only thing "Freedom of Speech" and "Freedom of Expression" do, is opt to the better side of expression.

So yes, that shooting falls not under freedom of expression, but it falls under expression because obviously somebody got pissed off about it and went out to shoot some people.
Not true, it's like Popper's paradox of intolerance.

A society which values tolerance must be intolerant of intolerance to some degree. It's a meta-behaviour to protect the wider value. As such, actions which limit others' freedom of expression must themselves be limited. Is this erring on the "better side" of expression, no I wouldn't say so. A Salafist Muslim is free to argue all he likes that apostates should be killed, but when you actually kill apostates you're very obviously harming other individuals' freedom to their own expression.

It's not about protecting some forms of expression over others; it's about protecting expression as widely as is possible.


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It still baffles me that in this day and age, people continue to legitimately believe that violence is an appropriate retaliation to fucking words. And just lol at all the victim blaming ITT. You have a right to express whatever shitty opinion you want. The fact that we live in a world where feeling scared that your values might get you killed is commonplace is disgusting.


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It still baffles me that in this day and age, people continue to legitimately believe that violence is an appropriate retaliation to fucking words. And just lol at all the victim blaming ITT. You have a right to express whatever shitty opinion you want. The fact that we live in a world where feeling scared that your values might get you killed is commonplace is disgusting.
But they weren't targeted for their views, they were targeted because they provoked it. Serves them right tbf.


 
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Serves them right tbf.
Just like women in skimpy clothes provoke racists, right?


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It still baffles me that in this day and age, people continue to legitimately believe that violence is an appropriate retaliation to fucking words. And just lol at all the victim blaming ITT. You have a right to express whatever shitty opinion you want. The fact that we live in a world where feeling scared that your values might get you killed is commonplace is disgusting.
But they weren't targeted for their views, they were targeted because they provoked it. Serves them right tbf.
I don't care if they were chanting that Muhammad was a faggot while smearing pork all over a likeness of him. Violence is never a just response to words.


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It still baffles me that in this day and age, people continue to legitimately believe that violence is an appropriate retaliation to fucking words. And just lol at all the victim blaming ITT. You have a right to express whatever shitty opinion you want. The fact that we live in a world where feeling scared that your values might get you killed is commonplace is disgusting.
But they weren't targeted for their views, they were targeted because they provoked it. Serves them right tbf.
you just provoked me. im going to find and kill you. serves you right.


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Serves them right tbf.
Just like women in skimpy clothes provoke racists, right?
Well I don't see how mini skirts provoke racists unless worn by Oprah.


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It still baffles me that in this day and age, people continue to legitimately believe that violence is an appropriate retaliation to fucking words. And just lol at all the victim blaming ITT. You have a right to express whatever shitty opinion you want. The fact that we live in a world where feeling scared that your values might get you killed is commonplace is disgusting.
But they weren't targeted for their views, they were targeted because they provoked it. Serves them right tbf.
I don't care if they were chanting that Muhammad was a faggot while smearing pork all over a likeness of him. Violence is never a just response to words.
So you only care about 1 side of the problem? Good to know.


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It still baffles me that in this day and age, people continue to legitimately believe that violence is an appropriate retaliation to fucking words. And just lol at all the victim blaming ITT. You have a right to express whatever shitty opinion you want. The fact that we live in a world where feeling scared that your values might get you killed is commonplace is disgusting.
But they weren't targeted for their views, they were targeted because they provoked it. Serves them right tbf.
you just provoked me. im going to find and kill you. serves you right.
doesn't work like that in the real world.


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It still baffles me that in this day and age, people continue to legitimately believe that violence is an appropriate retaliation to fucking words. And just lol at all the victim blaming ITT. You have a right to express whatever shitty opinion you want. The fact that we live in a world where feeling scared that your values might get you killed is commonplace is disgusting.
But they weren't targeted for their views, they were targeted because they provoked it. Serves them right tbf.
you just provoked me. im going to find and kill you. serves you right.
doesn't work like that in the real world.
then why the fuck are you defending these crazy people?


 
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It still baffles me that in this day and age, people continue to legitimately believe that violence is an appropriate retaliation to fucking words. And just lol at all the victim blaming ITT. You have a right to express whatever shitty opinion you want. The fact that we live in a world where feeling scared that your values might get you killed is commonplace is disgusting.
But they weren't targeted for their views, they were targeted because they provoked it. Serves them right tbf.
Oh sure, but if I say that about scantly clad women and rape I'm a "misogynist" and "socially backwards".


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
So you only care about 1 side of the problem? Good to know.
No, you idiot. Muslims should be equally free to argue for and express all manner of outrageous claims. They should be able to behead straw-men with a sign saying "apostate" around their neck if somebody is willing to have such demonstrations on their property.

The point is apostates should then in turn not fucking murder them. I honestly don't believe that you can equate drawing pictures of Mohammed to murdering people for it; even you aren't that stupid.


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So you only care about 1 side of the problem? Good to know.
No, you idiot. Muslims should be equally free to argue for and express all manner of outrageous claims. They should be able to behead straw-men with a sign saying "apostate" around their neck if somebody is willing to have such demonstrations on their property.

The point is apostates should then in turn not fucking murder them. I honestly don't believe that you can equate drawing pictures of Mohammed to murdering people for it; even you aren't that stupid.


1) Stop reverting to ad-hominems like your brown noser.

2) Even if they did behead straw men you would have a problem. Just admit it already.

3) They provoked an attack against a large group of people, every action as a reaction. in this case, karma.


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So you only care about 1 side of the problem? Good to know.
No, you idiot. Muslims should be equally free to argue for and express all manner of outrageous claims. They should be able to behead straw-men with a sign saying "apostate" around their neck if somebody is willing to have such demonstrations on their property.

The point is apostates should then in turn not fucking murder them. I honestly don't believe that you can equate drawing pictures of Mohammed to murdering people for it; even you aren't that stupid.


1) Stop reverting to ad-hominems like your brown noser.

2) Even if they did behead straw men you would have a problem. Just admit it already.

3) They provoked an attack against a large group of people, every action as a reaction. in this case, karma.
the ironic misuse of karma there made me giggle.

in this case, the action of the cartoonists DID necessitate a reaction- namely, a debate on the nature of muhammad's depiction and whether or not it should be considered haram. committing violent retribution for perceived slights against your faith is disproportionate and flat out stupid.


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
2) Even if they did behead straw men you would have a problem. Just admit it already.
Where did I claim I wouldn't have a problem with it? Of course I fucking would, it would be a horrible, Medieval display of barbarism.

The difference between you and I is that I wouldn't be trying to justify the actions of non-Muslims who subsequently try to murder them.


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2) Even if they did behead straw men you would have a problem. Just admit it already.
Where did I claim I wouldn't have a problem with it? Of course I fucking would, it would be a horrible, Medieval display of barbarism.

The difference between you and I is that I wouldn't be trying to justify the actions of non-Muslims who subsequently try to murder them.
So "killing" straw men is horrible and barbaric? LOL

Christ you must flood the place with tears when a tree gets chopped down. lol


 
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So "killing" straw men is horrible and barbaric? LOL

Christ you must flood the place with tears when a tree gets chopped down. lol
I find it really funny how you can accuse me of ad hominem and, in the same comment no less, call another user a brown-noser and then try to make fun of me for thinking the idea of murdering apostates is barbaric.

If you don't have anything useful to say--whether it's couched in insults or not--then fuck off out of Serious.


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So "killing" straw men is horrible and barbaric? LOL

Christ you must flood the place with tears when a tree gets chopped down. lol
I find it really funny how you can accuse me of ad hominem and, in the same comment no less, call another user a brown-noser and then try to make fun of me for thinking the idea of murdering apostates is barbaric.

If you don't have anything useful to say--whether it's couched in insults or not--then fuck off out of Serious.
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