The only thing I'm going to say about this
Jan. 8th, 2015 05:11 pmI'm against hate speech.
I'm against murdering people for making cartoons.
I'm against attacking people in retaliation for murders that they had nothing to do with.
I'm against the climate of xenophobia in France, which is, among other things, fallout from France's colonialist history.
I'm also side-eyeing the fact that there was nowhere near this level of international outcry or media coverage of the murders of 145 Pakistani children massacred and suspect it was because they weren't white Westerners.
(For context, this is a useful thing to read. Not substantially different than Nazi anti-Semitic cartoons of the 1930s. But they shouldn't have been killed over it, obviously.)