This.
Just for the record, I fully agree in principle that we should strive to ignore conditional threats of violence (from Islam, anti-abortionists, Neo-Nazis, or whoever).
There just wasn’t a threat in this case.
It was a clearly implied threat and the network acted on it which substantiates the fear behind it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The time for a reality check was “Today, 11:38 AM”
After that it was all aboard the crazy train, with non-stop travel to a giant protest full of racists. I hope the tea baggers join in, I picture a venn diagram where the two circles overlap substantially. Since we’re talking about trying to mock and ridicule a group into not being a crazy bunch of violent fucks. I would make it easier if you were all in the same place holding the same retarded signs.
Cool, thanks.
It was a threat because the network thinks it was a threat? A 40-foot kangaroo couldn’t make that leap of logic.
Anyway, if you’ll excuse me, I need to find an attorney to help me sue the makers of my bathroom outlets. They’ve been threatening me with electrocution.
My concerns are for the freedom to publish without fear. That you try to twist this around by denying a threat was made and acted on is just that, a denial.
Someone makes a reference to a show’s content and the consequences of people murdered in the past and that’s a leap of logic. Best of luck with that letter to the President using the same framework.
Was there a similar threat made 2006 when the station first censored the image?
So,
censoring an imagine without a threat–no body cares.
censoring an imagine after a vaguely implied threat–racists get really super duper angry
If you really want to protest for free speech, why wait until May 20th.
Put SPIC on a wet t-shirt and head out May* 5th (gentlemen, only the back has to be wet, ladies, you can be as wet as you want).
Wait, no, ladies, you have to cover up, lest you offend someone that isn’t a Muslim.
For the clueless lot amongst us, the Spanish word for May is Mayo. And the Spanish word for 5 is Cinco. May 5th happens to also be Cinco de Mayo which has become a Mexican version of St Patrick’s Day. And for the REALLY clueless, it’s not Mexico’s 4th of July. It was a Mexican victory over the French.
How is this racism? Since when is Islam a race? I have seen Muslims who are blonde and blue-eyed (in Kosovo, for example) and some that are so black they are blue. There are Chinese Muslims. The guy who threatened South Park is a convert to Islam whose original name was “Cohen”.
I myself am light brown (kind of Italian looking) because one of my ancestors was black. Yet I am accused of racism if I criticise Islam?
Am I a racist if I criticise Roman Catholicism or Protestantism? How about Hinduism?
What letter to the President?
You appear, unsurprisingly, to have missed the point.
If we are in, say, a bar, and you propose to walk over to a table full of angry-looking people and tell them to go fuck themselves, and I mention that angry-looking people have been known to react with violence and that you ought to rethink your plan, am I threatening you?
Can we leave out the racism bit? There’s no apparent racist element to this.
No, actually, it isn’t. The guy never threatened to do anything himself and, as a matter of fact, explicitly said that he wasn’t making a threat. If I say a going into South Central LA with a giant sign saying “kill the Niggers” might get himself killed, that’s not a death threat, just an observation of possible danger.
There was no threat against Comedy Central. Never happened.
No threat was made. It is a fiction that a threat was made. It did not happen.
What does Mohammed look like anyway?
What?
Google “Mohammed” and click “view image results.” The second result is funny.
And considering how many results Google turns up, you get bonus points for committing lots of grave insult.
I have a better analogy. How about a newspaper that publishes a cartoon about how intolerant and violent a religion is and it triggers worldwide intolerance and violence.
The point has always been free speech. You don’t see Hindu’s, Buddists and Christians going ape over South Park do you? It’s not that the followers don’t object, they just use free speech to voice it.
I beat you to it. Anyway, it’s not nearly as funny as the fourth result* (if you have SafeSearch turned off). Come to think of it, the first one is pretty good too.
*Probably NSFW. Depicts rather nice buttocks.
You don’t see Muslims doing it either.
I bet they’ve gotten at least one death threat from Christians, though.