Matt Bors, Internet’s Best Cartoonist, Explains Why Charlie Hebdo Cartoons Should Be Published
Keep in mind, at the Charlie Hebdo offices, they still have 25 people going in to work there. They slaughtered a dozen people, and a single publication still has more cartoonists working for it than work for all American new media websites. Actually, it’s even starker than that: More cartoonists were killed at the Charlie Hebdo offices than work for American new media websites.
Emphasis mine.
I Don’t Know if Je Suis Charlie
Extremism doesn’t emerge from a vacuum. It’s not the territory of a particular religion or ideology. It isn’t some easy path. It doesn’t happen overnight. As a person who has walked down the street, gun in hand, thinking that I would kill, I can say this: You don’t get there overnight. You don’t get there alone. You get there after everything else you could imagine being good in life is gone, or you are sure the last good things are going to be taken from you. For most people, the day you pick up a gun is the day you don’t think anyone will hear your needs any other way.
I’m glad to see such in depth analysis and reflection on this story finally occuring. Reflecting on stories as complex as this takes time, and I think we would all do »