Who Should
We Consider "Oppressed?"
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Posted: 26 Apr 2015 03:47 PM PDT
Garry Trudeau received an award last week for his Doonesbury comic
strip. In accepting the award, he criticized the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists for
"attacking a powerless, disenfranchised minority," "ridiculing
the nonprivileged," and accused them of hate speech.
In a New York Times Op-Ed, Ross Douthat eloquently pointed out that when armed Muslims murder journalists, it is an egregious moral error to label the journalists as the oppressors. One has to be appallingly and ludicrously blinkered — blinded by one's own ideology — to be unable to recognize the vast moral difference between drawing a cartoon and murdering the cartoonist. To help give your friends and family greater moral clarity about the problem of Islam, I recommend sharing with them Douthat's Op-Ed from the New York Times: Checking Charlie Hebdo's Privilege.
Read more about
Trudeau's speech here:
Why Garry Trudeau Is Wrong About Charlie Hebdo The Abuse of Satire. |
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