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Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo shooting. What is your opinion on the freedom of satire in general and the satire of religion in particular? (jlai.lu)

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting

This is a sensitive topic for some people, so please do your best to have civil discussions. Let's do better than the average social media.

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[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. -- Frank Wilhoit

There are paradoxes in the system, but rest assured that these religions, the Abrahamic ones and other World religions, are all conservative in their construction.

You are not going to find the answers to the paradoxes, you're not going to find the equilibrium. I'm certainly not going to give you the solutions in some obscure comment, this kind of stuff requires shelves of books and papers.

Note that if you think the satire magazine is some dangerous fascist organization posting their propaganda in order to recruit for an underground militia type organization, you have to prove that. It's not too difficult to prove or disprove, but that can be a skill in of itself, something all moderators everywhere should have.

Here's one of their covers satirizing French racists:

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