Because presumably, as Im sure the Ayatollah would love it to be this way, Iranian catoonists are all going to be in favor of the holocaust and only draw things that are grotesteque and insulting — cuz thats how this comes off. Anyway, is this like some sort of West Side Story streefight now — we’re nicer than you are aside from our governements like all enacting jihad all over Israel.

Uh, do they think the Jews are going to, like, drop to MOAB because of some dumb cartoons? I mean its not like the Imams’ (offensive) opinions of Jews and Israel arent already widely known & plainly obvious. The Jews have seen worse than that, you know, some of them saw the actual Holocaust. What rock did this guy crawl out from under?

I read a good term on another site recently, which is that the unwillingness of people to espouse any beliefs that could possibly be construed as “racist” has led to a color-mute society.

Not a color-blind society, because everyone is aware of race, but color-mute, because we have silenced ourselves.

I wish that all of these censors–because that is what they are–would recall Voltaire’s famous statement:

“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”

P.S. Note that the far more common quote that is attributed to Voltaire (“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”) is actually from a Voltaire biography. I didn’t know that myself until I looked it up!