Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* here's a thorough update on the matter of a Jesus And Mo cartoon being posted on a British university group's Facebook page and the resulting firestorm of controversy that's developed. I guess the head of that organization stepped down in a kind of "screw this" fashion, and that the group still refuses to remove the cartoon. As harsh as I've been over the years regarding the dick-move aspects of Jyllands-Posten publishing the original cartoons, I don't buy the argument that such cartoons are only ever published to offend, nor that one should have the right to expect to live free from offense. I also think there's a huge degree of difference between a cynical stunt performed by a newspaper that has a clear, public, societal role and something that's posted on a group's web site. I can't imagine it'd be hard to avoid seeing such a cartoon, and even when I put on my sensitive scarf it's hard to muster a sense of betrayal that a bunch of student skeptics would endorse a satirical cartoon featuring a religious figure.

* the cartoonist and editor Matt Bors describes the nastiest letter he ever received, on the subject of the Danish cartoons.
 
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