re: #50 Charles Johnson

It’s just wrong to generalize from these riots to include everyone in these countries as “ignorant of free speech.” Every newscaster on the scene has reported that the demonstrations are actually very small. But it doesn’t take many violent nutjobs to start a riot.

I’m seeing an AWFUL lot of generalizing and stereotyping going on in this issue.

I’m not saying that everyone is ignorant of free speech, just that the overreaction is not something we should respond to by censoring ourselves. We need to condemn the people putting out this crap, but I don’t think we want to get in the business of Standards and Practices telling people “you can’t print that” because it might offend someone.