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03-07-2002, 03:14 PM

No one's being intolerant. The New York Times simply does not want to suffer the backlash of running this cartoon. Remember - Congress shall make no law to infringe on the freedom of speech. That doesn't mean that the newspaper has to run his cartoon.

I'm all for free speech, but some of it is going to be in bad taste. I can understand this cartoon, even if I don't condone it. However, it's still pouring the proverbial salt on a pretty big wound.

I have a rule that I try to stand by, and I wish others would do the same: If you're going to make fun of others, fine - but make fun of something that they can control. It's no fun being made fun of for something that you have no control over. Case in point: I am not slim. I don't care if you call me fatso or tubby or whatever you want that has to deal with something I have control over, but I would be a bit more if you started poking fun at the fact that I am half blind after being shot in the face 6 1/2 hears ago.

No matter what pain I may feel from people saying things like "Hey, Blind man!" and calling me "cyclops", it's nothing in comparison to the grief that losing a loved one surely brings. Over 3,000 innocent civilians were murdered on 9/11, and the plight of those that loved them is, in two words, not funny. It's simply not, and anyone that lost someone would agree.

Notice the jab at Daniel Pearl in the cartoon - "Of course it's a bummer that they slashed my husband's throat - but the worst was having to watch the Olympics alone!" - does anyone find that funny? Can that be funny at all? Imagine the suffering that Marianne Pearl is enduring right now - knowing that she will have to raise her child without a father, knowing that the man that she loved had his throat cut, was decapitated, and his dead body stabbed numerous times by his captors. She will, over the course of her life time, think about how her husband felt during the last moments of his life - and it will eat her up inside.

Here's this asshole making fun of that.

I'm all about free speech, but I've got no problem with this offensive cartoon getting pulled from a private publication. If he had to deal with the pain and suffering that those who lost loved ones are going through and will continue to experience, he wouldn't have drawn that cartoon.

I'm all about free speech, but I won't make excuses for shit like this.

03-07-2002, 03:14 PM	#6
dave Guest Posts: n/a	No one's being intolerant. The New York Times simply does not want to suffer the backlash of running this cartoon. Remember - Congress shall make no law to infringe on the freedom of speech. That doesn't mean that the newspaper has to run his cartoon. I'm all for free speech, but some of it is going to be in bad taste. I can understand this cartoon, even if I don't condone it. However, it's still pouring the proverbial salt on a pretty big wound. I have a rule that I try to stand by, and I wish others would do the same: If you're going to make fun of others, fine - but make fun of something that they can control. It's no fun being made fun of for something that you have no control over. Case in point: I am not slim. I don't care if you call me fatso or tubby or <b>whatever you want</b> that has to deal with something I have control over, but I would be a bit more if you started poking fun at the fact that I am half blind after being shot in the face 6 1/2 hears ago. No matter what pain I may feel from people saying things like "Hey, Blind man!" and calling me "cyclops", it's nothing in comparison to the <b>grief</b> that losing a loved one surely brings. Over 3,000 innocent civilians were murdered on 9/11, and the plight of those that loved them is, in two words, <b>not funny</b>. It's simply not, and anyone that lost someone would agree. Notice the jab at Daniel Pearl in the cartoon - "Of course it's a bummer that they slashed my husband's throat - but the worst was having to watch the Olympics alone!" - does anyone find that funny? Can that be funny at all? Imagine the suffering that Marianne Pearl is enduring right now - knowing that she will have to raise her child without a father, knowing that the man that she loved had his throat cut, was decapitated, and his dead body stabbed numerous times by his captors. She will, over the course of her life time, think about how her husband felt during the last moments of his life - and it will eat her up inside. Here's this asshole making fun of that. I'm all about free speech, but I've got no problem with this offensive cartoon getting pulled from a private publication. If he had to deal with the pain and suffering that those who lost loved ones are going through and will continue to experience, he wouldn't have drawn that cartoon. I'm all about free speech, but I won't make excuses for shit like this.