I was compensated for scrolling through endless yes-butting in my blogroll when I finally found something that makes every sense in the world:
“Yesterday I said that commentary of the form “You know, they really shouldn’t have said that…” is problematic. To be clear, what’s even more problematic is aiming collective blame at all Muslims. I love offensive art and I hate collective blame. I have no patience for PC scolds with their “Well, now, obviously I don’t support violence, but you really shouldn’t be offending people…” and I also have no patience for the flagrantly un-PC “Clearly we need to blame random people minding their own business” nonsense that’s getting spouted against Muslims.”
I couldn’t agree more. And once again, I feel like I might be OK with people. My faith in humanity has been restored.
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Yup. Normal reactions are those not based on identity. To look beyond identity and identify behavior is the key to having an ethical response to a situation.
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I can’t even begin to imagine the situation where a group of Ukrainians slaughters journalists for publishing a satire of Ukraine and I support it because it’s “my identity. “
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In the last week in Baga another Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram has been killing civilians for a week straight without even that excuse.
http://jpohl.blogspot.com/2015/01/african-lives-matter-too-baga-massacre.html
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Here’s one you’d like: https://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/je-suis-charlie-its-a-bit-late/
It’s brilliant.
“The irony is that those who most suffer from a culture of censorship are minority communities themselves. Any kind of social change or social progress necessarily means offending some deeply held sensibilities. ‘You can’t say that!’ is all too often the response of those in power to having their power challenged. To accept that certain things cannot be said is to accept that certain forms of power cannot be challenged.
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What is called ‘offence to a community’ is more often than not actually a struggle within communities. There are hudreds of thousands, within Muslim communities in the West, and within Muslim-majority countries across the world, challenging religious-based reactionary ideas and policies and institutions; writers, cartoonists, political activists, daily putting their lives on the line in facing down blasphemy laws, standing up for equal rights and fighting for democratic freedoms;
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What nurtures the reactionaries, both within Muslim communities and outside it, is the pusillanimity of many so-called liberals, their unwillingness to stand up for basic liberal principles, their readiness to betray the progressives within minority communities. On the one hand, this allows Muslim extremists the room to operate.
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Liberal pusillanimity also helps nurture anti-Muslim sentiment. It feeds the racist idea that all Muslims are reactionary, that Muslims themselves are the problem, that Muslim immigration should be stemmed, and the Muslim communities should be more harshly policed.”
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