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« Reply #100 on: May 08, 2015, 03:41:45 PM »

There are people in this thread literally blaming the (almost) victims of the attack. Nothing justifies trying to shoot people, and to insist that people should just stop doing something because a radical fringe group of people might attack is against the idea of free speech itself.

The irony is that the same people most likely to victim blame when it comes to victims of religious radicals (most often Muslims) are the same people who become enraged when people are questioning of the victim in... other crimes, let's say.

So is the suggestion that we should legislatively ban the practice of a religion we don't like.

Who in this thread supports this position?
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« Reply #101 on: May 08, 2015, 03:44:19 PM »

Not saying that anybody in the thread advocates it. But it's what's advocated explicitly by one of the organizers of the event in question. It complicates, at the very least, the contention that the event was a brave stand for the first amendment and free speech.
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« Reply #102 on: May 08, 2015, 04:57:08 PM »

The idea that Pamela Geller and Geert Wilders are "victims" is pretty rich.
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