With apologies to Michael Foucault. I chickened out of posting this yesterday, but with embassies burning down around the world, I felt it needed to be said.
Tag: culture wars
Offensive Cartoons
You know, when I first started Quaequam Blog! 1.0, one of my objectives, such as I had them, was to tease out the intersections of politics and comics. Over the past two years I have to say I’ve found myself getting less interested in comics – I’m finding it increasingly difficult to find anything that… Continue reading Offensive Cartoons
Another good reason why the Religious Hatred Laws are a really bad idea
The problem with “hatred laws” is that if you start handing out prosecutions like sweets, there is a genuine possibility that you might end up giving the Bad Guys a propaganda coup. Case in point. I had a horrible feeling this case was going to go badly months ago. Prosecuting someone for saying that a… Continue reading Another good reason why the Religious Hatred Laws are a really bad idea