Tuesday, February 21, 2006
THE SECOND OFFENSIVE CARTOON
The one with Jesus kissing Mohammed (or so I've read that's what's in it, though I haven't looked) is the subject of Robert Duncan's comments.(Scroll down)
One sentence leaps out..."Call it juvenile freedom of speech."
Yup, that's what I'd call it. Afterall, it's been done before, and look at the trouble it caused. No responsible person would repeat such a thing, yet the spokesman for the University of Toronto gets out that tired old "freedom of speech argument" since he hasn't got a better one.
I'd like to propose an alternative...Good manners. Could we have a return to speech that isn't structured to offend? Could we perhaps reinvent civility? Or does that violate the freedom to be obnoxious?
