A brief continuation?

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Censorship, continued:

What kind of response do you think South Park would have had, if instead of showing Buddha doing cocaine, it showed Mohammed [w/ or w/o a censor bar{and ignore censoring by the network}] doing cocaine?

Why do you think that?

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Re: "delusional"

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

I am most certainly addressing the issue; you are merely ignoring my points.

Those who find visual representations of Mohammed offensive, are not having those images forced upon them. They are free to NOT LOOK at the images of Mohammed. Are you suggesting that Muslims are compelled to look at images of Mohammed? Cause that's fucking looney.

What other means of protest do you suggest? Cause when the problem is people trying to tell you "you cannot draw X" the best way I can think of to let them know "yes I can" is to draw X. What do you suggest?

Re: "delusional"

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

I am most certainly addressing the issue; you are merely ignoring my points.

No, you aren't -- I keep asking about all of the entirely innocent "brothers" of yours who end up being unnecessarily insulted by the events in question and your only response "But it didn't mean too!"

Well, tough, it did -- and it did so in an entirely predictable way. You know people drew Mohammed on sidewalks so people would step on the drawings? Entirely predictable.

They are free to NOT LOOK at the images of Mohammed

Sure, walk a different way to work, I guess. Avoid the internet entirely until it blows over. Not watch the nightly news.

Very reasonable.

Only not so. The protest organizers took from something easy to avoid to something a lot less easy to avoid.

What other means of protest do you suggest?

Letter writing campaign to Comedy Central. Op-ed pieces. "FREE MATT AND TREY" t-shirts. Mass groups of people gathering gagged to represent the silencing of the original episode.

Are protesters really that lacking in creativity or did the desire to be politically incorrect just seem too juicy to not take?

Here's the bottom line once again: in order to tweak the nipples of a comparatively small number of extremists, you got a whole bunch of people who aren't extremists. You're free to do it, but it sucks and you shouldn't pretend this is a moral high ground when there were other means.