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user-inactivated  ·  3607 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's Sadly Unclear Whether This Article Will Put Lives At Risk

Are we distinguishing between people murdered because of some prick with a death-maker? It doesn't matter whether the guy was muslim, christian, jewish, or norse, he's dead. You diminish the guys killed because of a drawing.





swedishbadgergirl  ·  3607 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, no - I don't. But had you heard of the policeman? You can't say it doesn't matter when people face aggression from their environment every day for what they believe.

That man knew the people in that building hated him. He was still prepared to die to protect them because of his principles. That is heroic.

user-inactivated  ·  3607 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I find it disturbing to group the dead into a more-heroic or less-heroic catagory. How does "people facing aggression every day for what they believe" not apply to the cartoonists killed?

swedishbadgergirl  ·  3607 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It does apply, but what they were saying before they died was not heroic or beautiful, it wasn't a braveheart speech. Sharing it is not a victory because what you are sharing spreads hate which contributes to radicalization.

I find this is something that is very hard to discuss with/explain my feelings about to people overall, especially Americans so I'm going to end the discussion here.

bioemerl  ·  3607 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    especially Americans

I love my country... sometimes... This is one of them.

The celebration, the spread of offensive images, etc, is not a act of hatred, it is an act of resistance.

We are stating that "shooting people is not going to make us fear you". It is the same thing the US reacted with after 9/11. That was an attack to get us to pull out of the middle east. We didn't.

Anyone will find anything offensive. Anyone can see a thing and say it hurts them. That gives us no right to not be able to celebrate an image, or to post it everywhere. Offensive imagery is just as protected under free speech as any other, and we will not be stopped from spreading it.

You can see some of that in the speeches GWBush gave after 9-11.

swedishbadgergirl  ·  3607 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Disclaimer; I havn't been able to sleep because of pain and fever tonight and my filter is gone. Completely. I'm really, really sorry.

Yes, I love that about America to. But you don't realize how much your act affect the rest of the world. You are like that kid who didn't know their own strength and ended up squishing stuff with your love.

You boast and brag - but you HAVE the military to back that up.

No other country has that power.

You are fucking fascinating, but holy shit you are weird. You are a fucking continent, not a country. You are so many people.

You are honestly like the reddit of the world.

Like I love you sometimes but please can you stop whining - which I don't want you to do but you are such a young fragile country.

Like Sweden is super old compared to you. You don't have a history - and that is wonderful . you are fantastic at making your own but you are like the reality stars of the world- We see so much of you and we can't choose not to and if we bitch about it in English you will bitch back immediately because you cover several timezones.

Like it's not fair to compare Sweden with America - it is fair to compare America and Europe however.

You WILL NEVER BE STOPPED and holy fuck that is amazing but do you realize that we in Sweden and the whole of Europe HAVE to keep up with what you are doing or we will have no idea what is happening to us.

Do you UNDERSTAND that SWEDEN is a relatively big country in Europe, with 9 million people. There are Swedish youtuber's with more subscribers than fellow citizens.

Like you are wonderful and I love you and bitch about you because I spent one of my formative years inside you and I'm now stuck somewhere in the middle between Swedish and Wisconsin and like wow.

I love you but you are the teenagers of the world.

Seeing you talk about history gives me the exact same feelings of second hand shame as seeing a teenager talk about romantic relationships.

And you know WHY I am so fucking annoyed? Because when my friends ask about you I defend you.

But like, you realize Europeans KNOW what free speech is? Like we had it in the 1300 and we know because we have papers from that time.

You are like that kid you're seeing that is growing up so fast and you blink and you miss it. You having nuclear weapons is like giving them to toddlers. I would honestly be MORE comfortable with putting nuclear weapons in a day-care cause at least they have a short attention span.

bioemerl  ·  3606 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The US has a history. It isn't quite as long as that of many European countries, but you have to remember that a whole lot of the history of Europe is so old that it's not much more than tradition at this point, a lot of that old history effects the US just as much as it effects Europe. After all, most in the US moved here after being a part of that history.

As to our country acting like a toddler, or teenagers, or whatnot? I honestly don't understand where you are coming from on that. Do you refer to the "freedom!" values being overenthusiastic? Do you refer to childish revenge? What do you refer to?

And the US doesn't really interfere with Europe very often, no? What do you even mean by Sweeden and the whole of Europe having to keep up?

Honestly, I don't really understand what you are talking about through most of this.

swedishbadgergirl  ·  3606 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Me neither. I hadn't slept for a really long time when I wrote that.

I have no idea what my train of thought was. I'm sorry.

I just remember giggling and writing.

user-inactivated  ·  3606 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've been there. You're more eloquent than I am when you're tired. What was I babbling about that one time?

swedishbadgergirl  ·  3606 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Every Americans cultural blind-spot.