America becoming more like Europe? I WISH!

[AustinChief]

*EDITED for Cosmo and his ilk...*

Sadly, the discourse in America has become one of apology and appeasement. Things I have come to expect from Europe. YET while we have articles like this...

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep...dment-20120918

There are brave Europeans who are pushing back on the bullying, ignorant fanatics in the Middle East...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/wo...mmad.html?_r=0

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-857005.html

When people in FRANCE and Germany are putting us to shame in the free speech arena... we have serious issues here at home.

BTW.. this fits perfectly with my idea that our best course of action is to FLOOD the media with insulting anti-radical Islam images and videos over the next few months. (hell, every day for the next year) After a while the outrage and idiocy will simply burn itself out.

On the other hand, if we continue to kowtow and apologize appease and tiptoe around these assholes... we only invite further problems.

[blaise]

If ridiculing someone's religion is hate speech then I guess Dave Lane and 5 or 6 others here must be guilty of hate speech.

[La literatura]

Originally Posted by Brainiac

AustinChief obviously needs no help from me or anyone else in this thread, so I'll just make an observation: his analogy comparing this situation to domestic violence was 100% spot on. Watching the partisan hacks deny it was both predictable and hilarious.

First of all, burning a steak is not commercial speech intended for the public designed to incite reactions that conveys an intentionally stirring message, which possibly contributed to the death of an ambassador and attacks on U.S. embassies.

Secondly, for the reasons I mentioned in the above post, there are key insights to why the analogy is faulty.