Finally
If you're genuinely interested in gaining a deeper appreciation for the Danish cartoon business, stop reading MSNBC's coverage of it (or my dumbass blog, for that matter). Dig it here. Thanks to our good friend Josh Landis at syriacomment.com for the recommendation (also thanks for the beers, Josh, but that's another story entirely).
posted by Swill to Power at 12:56 AM
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Some of the cartoons do seem to propagate racist of other stereotypes. What if someone published a cartoon of Coretta Scott King in the image of Topsy? (I edited my profile accordingly.) We'd be pissed but no one's going to accept burning down the Galleria in protest.
I found myself agreeing with David Brooks this morning, who observed that the problem isn't about ideas, it's about a difference in our relationships to ideas.
The cartoons are offensive, perhaps racist, only funny to Danish people, etc. But riots and death? C'mon.
It is true that we have become extremely docile, gentle, people who are willing to have our elections, natural resources, and clean environment taken away from common ownership. It's true that we dutifully pay our taxes, over half of which go to the production of devices which cause horrible birth defects in newborns, indiscriminately incinerate populations. It's true that we peacefully allow our government to suspend habeas corpus, forcefeed prisoners who haven't been charged with anything, and torture.
Perhaps not willing, exactly: have you seen the way we take on the government and the corporations with our, um, scathing blog postings?
Maybe it's not rioters who have it backwards.
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Yeah, that's a good point. If they weren't rioting over a fucking cartoon.
"Death to Denmark."
Denmark's at the center of the Zionist conspiracy, OR HAD YOU FORGOTTEN THAT!
You'd think they'd just be in one continuous riot, if they thought about it. And, as you know, I'm clandestinely arming myself to the teeth, building a house in a rural area off the grid, and preparing for the eventual melt-down and post-industrial tribalism that will ensue. And you and yours, MS, will have your own place at the hearth.
Blog postings are good, though. You can write stuff without worrying if it's completely thought out, and then people correct you. Or you correct yourself. Inconsistency is greatness.
"The reporter says that Arabs who visited with the group later claimed Akkari's delegation had given them the impression that Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen somehow controlled or owned Jyllands-Posten."
holy fuck, you mean to tell me the rass-rass is involved in this whole flap??!!
Indeed. No wonder it's going so smoothly.
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