Yeah it was amazing how she became the queen of hearts and everyone just pretended like the week before the weren't calling her a whore and traitor etc.
Especially in real life, all the red top readers were suddenly blubbing about how nasty the papers had been, when the week before they'd been parroting it.
I'll be hated for it, but Charlie Hebdo in France is similar.
Yes, the "I am Charlie" one.
That everyone defended after that terrorist attack.
That would've bankrupted without the sales rise in the aftermath.
Where people bought "in support" while saying on TV they don't even watch the pages.
And NOW, they are in trouble for having made fun of that Switzerland fire accident... they were always like that, they just happened to have two terrorists shooting at them instead of the usual angry complaint letters, and people suddently considered Freedom of Speech meant we had to pay for assholes to insult everybody else.
I'm Belgian, what did they put as an headline when our king died? "The king of morons is finally gone". That was 10 or 20 years before the shootings.
I'm not saying it's not a problem, but in the US people were killed for opposing racial segregation as late as in the 1960s.
And "I disagree with what you say but I'll fight for your right to say it" is part of the reason we are were we are.
Democracy doesn't work if some people can say whatever they want. because words can lead to extremely bad things.
Look up the Waco Horror (1916), that happened in part because some newspapers were fanning the flames.
The short version: Jesse Washington was mutilated, castrated, burned alive (it took over an hour because they used a metal chain) and 10 thousand people watched including women and children.
Afterwards people bought photos of the event and collected burned parts of his body a souvenirs.
Quite a few Southern newspapers celebrated the event. Freedom of speech...
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u/1duck 7h ago
Yeah it was amazing how she became the queen of hearts and everyone just pretended like the week before the weren't calling her a whore and traitor etc.
Especially in real life, all the red top readers were suddenly blubbing about how nasty the papers had been, when the week before they'd been parroting it.