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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

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[-] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Is making fun of a religion hate speech? Like religion is a choice to embrace so its kind of weird that it's a protected class, despite the pilgrims fleeing it.

[-] richieadler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Is making fun of a religion hate speech?

Many believers seem to think so. Then again, they think it's "hate speech" to show the contradictions of their "holy" book, so...

[-] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

It depends. If they have blatant hypocrisy and hatred towards others or they're manipulating laws based on their weird beliefs, or using their religion as an excuse to abuse people then yeah, it's open season on that. If you're just making fun of someone because of their funny looking hat, then you're just being an AH.

[-] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 day ago

As in most things: it depends. Your question is too broad for an answer lacking nuance. But why did you ask?

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