{"id":346,"date":"2015-01-08T11:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T09:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suomenkuvalehti.fi\/kirjeita-aidille\/?p=346"},"modified":"2015-01-08T18:18:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T16:18:18","slug":"cartoons-stupid-jesuischarlie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suomenkuvalehti.fi\/kirjeita-aidille\/cartoons-stupid-jesuischarlie\/","title":{"rendered":"Their cartoons were stupid, but #JeSuisCharlie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Mom,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awful (albeit not really surprising) news about what happened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/01\/08\/europe\/charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting\/index.html\">in Paris yesterday<\/a>. As a journalist (ok, mostly copywriter nowadays, but still) and an American (with a permanent residence permit in Finland, but still), I value freedom as much as the next person. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of whatever \u2013 I love them all. That said, I also believe that using that freedom as an excuse to be an a-hole is just stupid. Freedom of speech doesn\u2019t mean you get to say whatever you want without any consequences. It just means the government can&#8217;t stop you from saying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IMHO, many of Charlie Hebdo\u2019s cartoons were mean, hateful and not funny. And although I\u2019m a Jew (or a \u201cJewtheran,\u201d as you like to say), I can totally understand how many of the 1.5 billion Muslims in the world could find the cartoons about Islam particularly offensive. Kind of like how Jews (and most other people) have a tendency to be a little \u201csensitive\u201d about jokes about the Holocaust. As a New Yorker, I even found the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JnszgkE3O8g\">helicopter scene in The Dictator<\/a> offensive. And it&#8217;s worth noting that, perhaps out of fear or maybe for some other reason, even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/1-killed-3-injured-shooting-french-satirical-paper-article-1.2068486\">New York Daily News blurred<\/a> the cover of an issue of the magazine in its coverage of yesterday&#8217;s terrorist attack (as a news outlet, I actually think it&#8217;s pretty strange that they did that).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point is, some things just really aren\u2019t funny. And let\u2019s face it, the French might know a lot about high fashion and good food, but comedy has never really been their forte. Come on, they actually think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/online\/daily\/2013\/07\/french-love-jerry-lewis-paris%20\">Jerry Lewis is funny<\/a>! Oh mon Dieu!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there you go. I know it\u2019s not \u201cthe right thing\u201d to say right now, but hey, I\u2019m free to say it: I think many of Charlie Hebdo\u2019s cartoons were stupid. Really stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/voltaire-9520178\">another French satirical polemicist<\/a> once said: \u201cI do not agree with what you have to say, but I\u2019ll defend to the death your right to say it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#JeSuisCharlie,\nLissu<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mom, Awful (albeit not really surprising) news about what happened in Paris yesterday. As a journalist (ok, mostly copywriter nowadays, but still) and an American (with a permanent residence permit in Finland, but still), I value freedom as much as the next person. Freedom of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"asauth_required_access_level":0,"asauth_cansharepaid":"true","om_header_attributes":[],"footnotes":"","om_featured_image_focal_point":[],"om_primary_tag":0,"om_contributors":[],"om_co_authors":[],"beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_content_id":"","beyondwords_preview_token":"","beyondwords_player_content":"","beyondwords_player_style":"","beyondwords_language_code":"","beyondwords_language_id":"","beyondwords_title_voice_id":"","beyondwords_body_voice_id":"","beyondwords_summary_voice_id":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","beyondwords_delete_content":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","speechkit_status":"","speechkit_updated_at":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[240,244,241,242,243],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kirjeita-aidille","tag-jesuischarlie","tag-charlie-hebdo","tag-offensive-cartoons","tag-paris","tag-satire"],"om_views":null,"acf":{"tuuma_off":false,"tuuma_kysymys":"","tuuma_vastaus":""},"asauth":{"required_access_level":1,"share_token":"","is_paid":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Their cartoons were stupid, but #JeSuisCharlie - Kirjeit\u00e4 \u00e4idille<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/suomenkuvalehti.fi\/kirjeita-aidille\/cartoons-stupid-jesuischarlie\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fi_FI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Their cartoons were stupid, but #JeSuisCharlie - Kirjeit\u00e4 \u00e4idille\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear Mom, Awful (albeit not really surprising) news about what happened in Paris yesterday. 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