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Charlie Hebdo: The French Satirical Magazine Is Heroic. It Is Also Racist.

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Nyet1/09/2015 8:24:50 am PST

re: #7 CuriousLurker

I have a couple of questions then: CH clearly didn’t feel the need to concern themselves with others’ context, knowing full well that what they were doing would offend—often in the most vulgar, demeaning way possible—so why is it important that we should bother to understand theirs?

Well, there are two options:
1. one can understand their context and, if one then so wishes, reject their cartoons on whatever other truthful grounds one can find (surely there are plenty);
2. or one can willfully reject the context and continue telling untruths.

So it basically depends on whether one wants to be truthful or not.