Yes, I’ve heard this kind of hand-wringing, victim-blaming bullshit before, as if it somehow excuses the complete snowflake parents who were offended by it and sent him into hiding with death threats.
We don’t have blasphemy laws in this country and we shouldn’t act like we do just because of some overly sensitive religious loons.
I agree there should have been an angry mob wanting to lynch him.
But I don’t think teachers should knowingly cause offense either. If he didn’t know, then he is pretty dim. If a science teacher started saying, as fact, there was no gods, some parents would get offended. The response would depend on the area.
Neither should have happened. The mob is worse I agree. Hard to prove it had violent intent though.
He wasn’t showing a depiction of Mohammed to be edgy or cause offence. He was doing it to teach a lesson about political and religious messaging. He was, you know, being a teacher.
It only seems to be Muslims that act like this. If I use “Jesus” as a swear word, or say that Jesus was not God incarnate, that’s deeply offensive to Christians. Would I get a mob of Christians sending me death threats, or would they just ignore me, think I’m a knob and get on with their day?
Besides, you can’t “cause offence”. Offence cannot be given, only taken. And what offends people differs everywhere. You can’t keep policing your language in case some nutter takes offence to it.
It’s really really ignorant to not know that was going to cause offence to Μuslims. The reason it was so well know is the riots it caused. So I think he knew he was going to cause offence.
And it’s not just Muslims, there are plenty of dangerously crazy christians (too much of the US!). I’d wonder if it was monotheism being fundamentalist, but then there crazy Hindus and Buddhists and everything else. I think it’s just humans. Especially in groups/mobs.
Yes, I’ve heard this kind of hand-wringing, victim-blaming bullshit before, as if it somehow excuses the complete snowflake parents who were offended by it and sent him into hiding with death threats.
We don’t have blasphemy laws in this country and we shouldn’t act like we do just because of some overly sensitive religious loons.
I agree there should have been an angry mob wanting to lynch him.
But I don’t think teachers should knowingly cause offense either. If he didn’t know, then he is pretty dim. If a science teacher started saying, as fact, there was no gods, some parents would get offended. The response would depend on the area.
Neither should have happened. The mob is worse I agree. Hard to prove it had violent intent though.
He wasn’t showing a depiction of Mohammed to be edgy or cause offence. He was doing it to teach a lesson about political and religious messaging. He was, you know, being a teacher.
It only seems to be Muslims that act like this. If I use “Jesus” as a swear word, or say that Jesus was not God incarnate, that’s deeply offensive to Christians. Would I get a mob of Christians sending me death threats, or would they just ignore me, think I’m a knob and get on with their day?
Besides, you can’t “cause offence”. Offence cannot be given, only taken. And what offends people differs everywhere. You can’t keep policing your language in case some nutter takes offence to it.
It’s really really ignorant to not know that was going to cause offence to Μuslims. The reason it was so well know is the riots it caused. So I think he knew he was going to cause offence.
And it’s not just Muslims, there are plenty of dangerously crazy christians (too much of the US!). I’d wonder if it was monotheism being fundamentalist, but then there crazy Hindus and Buddhists and everything else. I think it’s just humans. Especially in groups/mobs.