Happy
News! Dudes I’m so not going to tell you that I am going to be blogging on a constant
basis because I say that every year lol. I hope you all had a kick ass
Christmas and winter holiday season. I
usually don’t write about current and world/political events on my blog because the
purpose of this blog is to share my love of #AllHorrorEverything with others
who love the genre. Plus the opposing sides ever agree and those types of conversations are usually to the death but I’m going to today because the topic drifts into the zone of free speech...the life blood of those who create for a living.
After
Sony was hacked I posted on Facebook that I didn't particularly feel bad for
Sony and their racist little film. Needless to say people were stunned. It was
assumed that because I write for a living that I would side with Sony on principle
because they were a victim of censorship.
I
always see those campaigns and post railing against bullying. There’s explanations
of the different types of bullying, and immediate and long term effects of
being picked on are often highlighted and sited in these types of threads.
Videos of victims standing up against their aggressor’s usual goes viral especially
if the victim responds with violence. There are helpful tips on how to report a
bully or other suggestions on how an attacker should be held accountable. When
the bullying is prejudicial the push back from advocates on team anti-bullying quickly
escalates into the equivalent of a pitch-fork, flame carrying mob, and rightly
so because this type of bullying is severe and can open the door to hate
crimes.
People
have no right to bully others
Bullies
Lose In The End
Stop
bullying & make a difference!
No
one will miss a bully.
We’ve
all heard them, some of us repeat them. But the way this works is if you truly want
to end all bullying then you need to call it out every time you see it, but the
problem is team end bullying only fight for the cause if the person being bullying
is them or someone they know. It doesn’t work like that.
You
either want it to end or you don’t. So which is it?
Now.
Where is the border between free speech and bullying?
"It
was a horrendous, unjustifiable and cold-blooded crime. It was also a direct
assault on a cornerstone of democracy, on the media and on freedom of
expression."
“People
had been "murdered in a cowardly manner"
“Despite
today's attack, Kerry said, civilization — with its core values of freedom of
expression and a free press — will prevail.”
"It's
perhaps a bit pompous, what I'm about to say, but I would rather die standing
than to live on my knees,"
Judaism,
Islam and some strands of Christianity all, to varying degrees, share an
aversion to visual images and anyone who has done the minimum amount of
research knows that.
Some
are calling Hebdo's work satire but his cartoons are doubly offensive because,
rather than criticize Mohammed, his purpose seems to have meant to be especially
offensive.
Where
is the border between free speech and bullying?
Let’s
back up a bit: Sketch artist Ted Rall. When he drew our President and his wife
as apes, the outrage was immediate…and global.
“an
editorial decision that has been slammed as "stale racist drivel."
"When
you consider the fragment apart from its context, which is a properly worked
out satirical section, then you don't see the joke but just a picture evoking
sheer racism," the newspaper said. "We wrongly assumed that racism is
no longer accepted, and that in this way it could be the subject of a
joke."
I'm
repulsed and speechless at the same time. This is wrong on so many levels.”
“Your
depiction of Barack Obama as ape-like is intolerable. Being critical of Obama,
even ferociously so, is not the problem. Through British and American history,
Blacks have been subject to racist depictions of themselves as monkeys and
apes. No excuse is acceptable for replicating that history, no matter what your
intent. If it happens again, your posting privileges will be suspended.”
Where
is the border between free speech and bullying?
After
the Sony hacking the Washington Posts said in part, “It’s impossible to summon
much sympathy for Kim Jong Un. But now imagine this assassination farce was
made not in Hollywood, but in North Korea or Moscow, and the leader
assassinated in the film was a president of the United States. Or imagine the
film was made by Iran, and the leader assassinated in the film was the prime
minister of Israel. Where “The Interview” draws on stereotypes about North
Korea’s ridiculous, yet terrifying isolationism, this hypothetical film makes
jokes about African Americans and Jews — perhaps about the incompetence of a
black man in the White House, or about Israel’s right to exist.”
If
there was a The North Korean, Russian or Iranian version of “The Interview” Would
we be so willing to write that off as satire?
I seriously
doubt it.
The
most memorable thing I've read from a Eric Garner protest was this: “Its not an
attack. Its retaliation.”
Where
is the border between free speech and bullying? This is something that we need
to figure out and figure out quick, because like the saying goes: There Is
Always Someone Bigger, Stronger and Meaner
You
either want it to end or you don’t. So which
is it?
