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PARIS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Six teenagers go on trial behind closed doors on Monday, accused of involvement in the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty by a suspected Islamist in 2020 in an attack that struck at the heart of the country's secular values.

The teacher had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on freedom of expression, angering a number of Muslim parents. Muslims believe that any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous.

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[-] ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago

i'd just like to comment on this comment section

since i've joined lemmy some months ago i've seen the nuanced discussion i was so relieved and happy to find here degrading. this section ilustrates that well. the nuanced and cautious are still there, but are being briganded against in a way i don't think they were before

maybe i'm sounding like an "eternal september" elitist here, but i do like open discussions on the internet, with all the ugliness that's bound to happen. i just really hope with all my heart that, in the midst of it all, the good things don't go away

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

When you have a significant number of people on the internet that are here simply to poison dialogue "for the lulz" or whatever other bullshit reason they use, this is how it will always end up.

[-] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I like to use this discussions to expand my blocklist. They call themselves out rather unambiguously in this sort of topics.

[-] Aleric@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have so many people in my block list now, it's ridiculous.

[-] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

There is no nuanced discussion on this topic, as there is only 1 correct reaction, within which any degree of outrage is justified.

[-] Copernican@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well I think he or she is referring to the "all religion is bad" arguments that are nothing about this particular case, which I agree that there is only 1 correct reaction here which is condemning this act.

[-] christian@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Lemmy turned into another reddit overnight when reddit killed third-party apps. On the one hand it makes it easier to ditch reddit entirely, but I do really miss what the community was in the years before that happened.

[-] Aleric@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed, but I still feel it's better than Reddit. It depends on the instance and community, of course, but assholery is far less tolerated here. At least in my experience. I do miss the pre-Reddit exodus days, though.

Also, if you haven't been on Reddit lately, it's really bad now. Definitely worse than before.

[-] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yea it's really sad that this community didn't have a long period of fewer interactions with higher quality comments. It regressed to the mean very quickly.

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