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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
That makes no sense, your suggesting we blindly follow whatever agenda is served to us by the press and government without questioning why?
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And you are suggesting that we blindly dismiss whatever "agenda" is "served" to us by the press and government.
As Firefly notes, what happened in Edmonton was an attack on a family. A considerable tragedy, and one that should not be trivialized. But there is no political motive, no ongoing threat to consider. What happened in Paris was not only a considerable tragedy, but a direct assault on the very rights and freedoms that we hold dear.
It is, of course, ironic that the attackers have pretty much engineered the greatest Streisand Effect since Barbara Streisand herself. The magazine is now world known, it's satirization of Islam is now world known, it has companies like Google donating money to ensure its survival and the planned 1 million copy print run for their next issue is almost certainly going to sell out.
These cowards attacked free speech, and we are seeing free speech respond. That is good. It is unfortunate that this attack will also carry an increase in hate speech (which speaks partially to what FlamesAddiction was talking about), but the proper response to that is more speech.