Church plans Qur'an burning

tater · 08-01-10, 10:01 AM

OK, so book burning pisses many of us off (though if you're gonna burn books, religious fantasy titles are a great place to start

).

That said, what about when here in the west, we see something functionally the same to me. Self-censorship.

Danish cartoons. What newspapers, magazines, or TV networks showed the "offensive" cartoons? Which ones? South Park—censored by its network. This is the same as book burning to me. It's not state action, but it is a SYMBOL of submission. It is a symbolic burning of documents that mean something—the Constitution, for example. Note that they did NOT self-censor the countless episodes that poke at "Jesus and Pals" on South Park. Or the attacks on Mormans, or Scientology. Only one religion gets a pass.

Ceding our freedom of expression for any reason is wrong. If that means not getting POed about the expression that is book (or flag) burning, so be it.

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tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	OK, so book burning pisses many of us off (though if you're gonna burn books, religious fantasy titles are a great place to start ). That said, what about when here in the west, we see something functionally the same to me. Self-censorship. Danish cartoons. What newspapers, magazines, or TV networks showed the "offensive" cartoons? Which ones? South Park—censored by its network. This is the same as book burning to me. It's not state action, but it is a SYMBOL of submission. It is a symbolic burning of documents that mean something—the Constitution, for example. Note that they did NOT self-censor the countless episodes that poke at "Jesus and Pals" on South Park. Or the attacks on Mormans, or Scientology. Only one religion gets a pass. Ceding our freedom of expression for any reason is wrong. If that means not getting POed about the expression that is book (or flag) burning, so be it.