Friday, February 03, 2006

Those cartoons

One thing I don't understand about the debate is why people feel that one can only sympathise with the newspaper in question (or the cartoonists) by reprinting the cartoons. Most bloggers and many in the media believed that the CPS was wrong to prosecute Nick Griffin on free speech grounds, and yet I didn't see a mass campaign to reprint his words of wisdom.

Of course this argument doesn't apply if you don't find anything in the cartoons to be offensive at all, or if you do think they are (or some are) offensive but actually wish to offend.