Wow, so you don’t actually know anything about Islam?
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
Don’t make me tap the signIt’s complicated. I don’t think I’ve ever read a better summary of the cartoons themselves than this old ilx post by an acquaintance:
Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari)Posted: 8 January 2015 at 12:31:21There's a strong possibility that many of their cartoons would have fallen foul of British laws about inciting racial and religious hatred. Many would have been equally as at home in a Neo-Nazi publication as they were in a libertarian satirical magazine. It's clearly possible to separate the belief that they have a right to publish from a belief that other organisations should republish as a point of principle, though.
― scampus milne (gyac), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
xpost Explain please
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
Your question about piss christ would indicate that you think that’s an equivalent blasphemy. It isn’t even close.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
Piss Christ of course being done by an adherent of Catholicism in a religion that doesn’t prohibit depictions of Jesus, so totally comparable.
― scampus milne (gyac), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
Like we’re talking about a culture that takes the commandment against idolatry so seriously that basically none of their art, for centuries, is figurative.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
I don't think it's possible to commit blasphemy to a religion you don't follow.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
That’s some sovereign citizen shit right there
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
bs
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
― scampus milne (gyac), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
“I don’t belong to any society other than the one I imagine in my own head”
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blasphemy
1a: the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for Godaccused of blasphemyb: the act of claiming the attributes of a deityfor a mere man to suggest that he was … divine could only be viewed … as blasphemy— John Bright †18892: irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable
for a mere man to suggest that he was … divine could only be viewed … as blasphemy— John Bright †1889
2: irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
I don't see anything about the beliefs of the person committing the act in those definitions.
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
Blasphemy in the sense that you are committing a sin that gets you punished within the laws of that religion--sent to hell/burned at stake etc. A non-believer has no spiritual reason to refrain from breaking a particular religion's law, only a social one.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
But let's be all Webster's
What, you mean let's understand the meaning of the words we're using?
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
yes, the social reason not to openly engage in blasphemy is in fact what everyone has been talking about on this thread for days. Thank you for catching up.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
I thought we were talking about beheadings
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
Can’t believe the guy with nothing useful to contribute to any thread is continuing that streak here
― scampus milne (gyac), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
it's a living
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
Oh, now you can see my posts.
― scampus milne (gyac), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
Your question was: do you have any thoughts on this?
I think you know the answer
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
You’re not getting enough attention at home, got it.
― scampus milne (gyac), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
too much actually
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
just catching up on the revive and this is a really interesting discussion. feel very enlightened by some posts itt.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
once you pick thru all the people in the thread arguing that the murder was justified under sharia law
― Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
lol
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
Basic critical theory around identity (which you'd think French people would have an edge in) since at least the 1970s
le rire à haute voix
― sarahell, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
Depends. French critical theory is no monolith and can be quite critical of identity as well.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
sorry, the LOL francaise was because Tracer and I were actually in the same critical theory/semiotics classes in the early 90s, where the majority of the texts were English translations of French writers.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
I still have my copy of Mythologies by Barthes from MCM 11
― sarahell, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
Yeah, sorry, I don’t think we should engage in blasphemy. I’m not going to wear a feather crown, nor am I going to keep my shoes in a Mosque. I think respecting the notion that muslims don’t like demeaning caricatures of their prophet is pretty easy to understand, and pretty easy to act on. And that the only social reasons you would partake in such activities is to prove that you don’t care about respecting other people’s right to spiritual and cultural integrity.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
I don’t have any regard for blasphemy as an offence, and it strikes me that several people itt are deliberately calling it this to deflect from the fact that it’s just disrespectful - like, if you’re discussing the subject, why use the CH ones?
― scampus milne (gyac), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
The CH ones?
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
The Charlie Hebdo cartoons.
― scampus milne (gyac), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
Oh yes, otm.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
I think respecting the notion that muslims don’t like demeaning caricatures of their prophet is pretty easy to understand, and pretty easy to act on.
Yes. Of the billion plus individuals or organizations in the western nations, I'd say this easy and respectful action has been taken by almost every one of them. Of the hundreds of billions of original images published each year around the entire world, I'd say fewer than a thousand of them would be caricatures of their prophet. (I'm not so sure about India, so I said "thousand" rather than "a few dozen".)
why use the CH ones?
Perhaps, because this was a civics class in France and the response to these images by some French residents was of particular historic import? It's not like this was a completely random choice. Undoubtedly it was a poor choice, but the reasoning behind their use is quite accessible, even if flawed. I doubt the reasoning was, "I hate my muslim students and want to disrespect them as deeply as I can."
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
I doubt it too. It was a honest mistake, perhaps. My problem lies in the press, politicians and l'éducation nationale celebrating his actions with heroism.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
In a country that celebrates Marine Le Pen this is not unexpected.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
Agreed, also expecting that another violent attack relating to these cartoons will happen within a few years. Since no lessons has been learned. The RN's legitimacy will keep growing as a consequence.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
Pretty much, yeah. None of the root causes are being addressed, and that's not bound to change any time soon.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
I’m just glad you all aren’t talking about Darmanin’s remarks today. Obviously I’m more sympathetic to the mainstream French approach to this than others here, but Darmanin’s comments today were batshit.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
Batshit and stupendously stupid.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
If the French mainstream involves over ten million people voting for a fascist for the presidency, I’m not sure that’s much to be proud of.
― scampus milne (gyac), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
Lol I saw that Euler. Darmanin may want to think about banning the insular, radical, uh, organic vegetable isolation in supermarkets as well. Different aisles for that shit. Drove me crazy in Auchan - the organic bananas being like three aisles over from the regular ones.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
It just blows my mind how fucking stupid these people are
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
and they rule us! I just... I can't
Behold, the true face of terrorism:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcRElhqXUAAChmk.jpg
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
I eat so much halal food, Darmanin’s should try it, it can be great. Not so much the old El Paso but I get really good tortillas delivered from a place in Prague, really
― All cars are bad (Euler), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
Undoubtedly it was a poor choice, but the reasoning behind their use is quite accessible, even if flawed. I doubt the reasoning was, "I hate my muslim students and want to disrespect them as deeply as I can."
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless),
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, October 21, 2020
No, this is not an honest mistake. It's ignorant and malign. It is like a classroom of white and Asian kids clips of I. Y. Yunioshi and Long Duk Dong and going 'hey, what's wrong with what I just did?'
― rb (soda), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link