08-19-2019, 06:52 PM
(08-19-2019, 05:30 PM)Dill Wrote: Jeezus. Not even the Iranians were arguing for "neutral ground" for mocking the murder of millions. My "neutrality" here would be in explaining the rationale of each paper; the problem is with your position if such neutrality threatens to "mitigate" it.
You cannot see this because your constant pre-judgment collapses neutrality from the get go. Hence the wild inferences about neutral ground for mocking murder. If I am not ALREADY condemning BEFORE reading and understanding, as you do, then I am an "apologist."
Nothing is "mitigated" by suggesting that you cannot find cartoons about the Holocaust in US national papers. Of course "the West" thinks its standards of censorship are ok.The stated goal of the Iranian editors was to foreground what appears to them a journalistic double standard, and to frame calls like yours to "condemn that which should be condemned without exception" as simply the mirror-image of their view of cartoons insulting Mohammad.
If the response is "it isn't the same because it isn't the same," that will play exactly as they want to audiences outside the US, and not only in the Middle East.
Just because you want to draw an equivalency doesn't mean your equivalency should be accepted or even acknowledged as remotely the same. Of course, you argument would have slightly more credibility if the chants of "Death to Israel" and pictures of mushroom clouds wasn't expressed at every Al Quds day. Heck, I even think such chants are made in the Iranian parliament. I seem to recall threats being made to "wipe Israel off the map".
So no, I completely reject the premise that mocking the Holocaust is even remotely on par with drawing a picture of a guy or is acceptable to draw what you, mistakenly, believe to be a parallel between the two.
