"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
01/15/2015 at 14:22 • Filed to: je suis charlie
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"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
01/15/2015 at 14:22 • Filed to: je suis charlie | 4
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I stumbled across an interesting article today where Salman Rushdie addresses the killings of Charlie Hebdo writers last week. If you're interested, click through for the quote and link to the article. If you're not interested have a rally car. My !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for rally car are pretty heavy on Subaru.
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Following a speech at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Rushdie addressed the killings last week of 12 people at the Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. He said he was angered that, in the aftermath of the shootings, some from both the left and the right began to vilify the victims.
"The French satirical tradition has always been very pointed and very harsh, and still is, you know," Rushdie said. "The thing that I really resent is the way in which these, our dead comrades ... who died using the same implement that I use, which is a pen or pencil, have been almost immediately vilified and called racists and I don't know what else."
He said some believe speech should be free, but it shouldn't upset anyone or go too far.
"Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is, 'Freedom is Indivisible,'" he said. "You can't slice it up, otherwise it ceases to be freedom. You can dislike Charlie Hedbo. ... But the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak."
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