Comments on: “Scapegoating Free Speech”

By: Must avoid offense (on penalty of …) - Overlawyered

Must avoid offense (on penalty of …) - Overlawyered — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 04:30:22 +0000

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By: John Rohan

John Rohan — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:12:55 +0000

As far as blaming the video for the riots – there seems to actually be an unconscious racism at work. I saw this same thing when people commented on the Paris riots a few years ago. If you blame the video for the violence, then what you are essentially saying is that Arabs and Muslims “just can’t help it”; as if they are children who can’t understand the consequences of their actions, so enlightened Western people need to be the adults in the room. This is incredibly patronizing, not to mention very racist. Arabs know what they are doing, the same as white people do.

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 01:25:00 +0000

The two groups that should be most for free speech, reporters and academics, refuse to defend free speech. Are they too stupid to realize that support for free speech is in their best interest, or do they think that it will only be people like Nakoula Basseley Nakoula and people on the right of the political spectrum who will be silenced? What goes around comes around.