Yet another seditious blogger | zombie christ is bad
I just want to say this:
I'm not entirely sure how seditious the cartoons were, to begin with. After all, the disruption to social harmony was quite minimal - there was no internet war, and there certainly wasn't an uproar on the scale of the anti-Muslim bloggers. And the cartoons were always out there - rather like the Jesus with a crucifix machine gun action figure.
I do know this though - everyone's going to start looking for those pictures now. Way to go to keep social harmony, boys in blue.
(Mr Wang pays for articles from the online ST, God bless him. I just link to him)
posted by Mezzo @ 2:18 am
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My papa has always coerced us to think twice before we speak or write because words have power to kill or heal.
Life is already so tough and stressful. Let us speak words that edify and encourage one another.
True, but how many of us will actually turn the other cheek if something we hold dear is being criticised?
It's very tempting to just shout at a person who says something to hurt us, which of course means that you yourself are guilty of saying something hurtful.
Was wondering - is your title inspired by Agatha Christie's The Orient Express?
Going by your logic, if somebody important to you is being portrayed as a zombie in that cartoon and very few people know about it, does it make it a non-issue to you?
Furthermore, why should anyone make a big hooha about Char being investigated since he was first requested to reconsider his actions but has chosen to be defiant instead and test the limits?
If he has the right to start something, so have others the right to stop it.
It's his choice. If he thinks respect is out of place, he should perhaps find a deserted island and really live in isolation.
"Going by your logic, if somebody important to you is being portrayed as a zombie in that cartoon and very few people know about it, does it make it a non-issue to you?"
Actually, yes. I'd walk away. The more noise I make about it, the more people will know about. It's not easy, but I would have to do it. I refuse to make that other person that important to me. People like that need attention - which is why you don't give it to them.
"If he has the right to start something, so have others the right to stop it."
What exactly did he start? I'm sorry, I don't believe that I follow you exactly here. If I have the right to start something, others have the right to stop it? Really? Haven't read my Hobbes or Voltaire recently, but... what?
"It's his choice. If he thinks respect is out of place, he should perhaps find a deserted island and really live in isolation. "
But that's part of the problem as well - people are complaining not because they think Char was right to do what he did, but because the police reaction was just seen as overkill.
As for living on a deserted island because he can't show respect, as someone pointed out, Char didn't exactly go and stand in Taka and hold up the posters. He merely put it up on his blog, which is a fairly private space. Someone had to make a choice to go into the blog, and be offended. That's like your local priest/iman walking into a sex store and complaining about being offended by the rubber kinky nun outfit.
Thanks for writing! You actually gave me something to think about.
Errr, the Internet is the WORLD WIDE WEB, accessible by anyone who has a connection to it anytime, anywhere.
Just because something is not an issue to you (in fact, you support Char actions) does not mean it is not offensive others.
And just because you choose to walk away does not mean others have to follow.
You are not God. Your words are, well, just words.
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