I know you may not have time to read all my posts...this maybe the reason why you make such an off-mark remark.
I will always defend the right of anybody to be racist.. but I will never defend or respect rascism....I am glad that you are stunned because the sentence "free speech defenders are needed in tough time" was also used by an all time racist I know in Spain....funny he did not use the same sentence when a book making fun of jews and the shoa was forbidden by the Spanish Supreme Court.
It is not tolerance of the intolerance it is just don't giving a damn about racists and nuts...If you want my opinion you just have to read the editorial of the Guardian. They sum up it nicely
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
Instead, this has become an international event because of the free speech issue, not the racism issue.
Or you mean that by using the freedom of speech debate we have made this a global issue when it need not to be, since this was supposed to be a purely racist remark in a small corner of Europe?
You mean it is better to use the racism frame , the freedom of speech or just ignore it all together?
I, myself, would liek to recall that it was started by racists and then other radicals took the issue which at the same time helped other radicals.
I just thought that using freedom of seppech as a theme will ake everybody involved and the moderates, as always, will be drowned out...but in this self-created discussion (as you seem to say the KKK would have loved this kind of publicity) is always difficult to know exactly what to do.
All I'm saying is that once the story made it out of Denmark, it became a free speech issue. Within Denmark, readers of the newspaper had every right to condemn it, cancel subscriptions, etc. Outside of Denmark, the calls to muzzle the newspaper editors were more inappropriate than the cartoons themselves, IMO.
