This is what the left thinks of anyone who dares to draw (or show) the pedophile, Muhammad.
Yes... that has the ring of truth to it... Leftist cheese-eating Surrender-Monkey mentality... lest we anger the Bad Guys.
This is work by Daryl Cagle.
He had two friends killed in the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and his op eds have been overwhelmingly in favour of freedom of speech. He's thoroughly pro-cartoonist. At least he was in the last few articles of his I've read.
This toon isn't particularly clear, but I think what he's
trying to say is that cartoonists have never shied away from drawing all manner of offensive characters (Nazis, the KKK, etc.). I really don't think his intention is to compare the "Draw Mohammed" cartoonists with Nazis, etc.
I thank you for the info. While I could see argument being valid; I just am quite skeptical that it is the case. If you find comments from the cartoonist that support your analysis, go ahead and post.....
From
Mr. Cagle's op ed accompanying the toon (bold by me):
I’m an editorial cartoonist; I haven’t drawn a Muhammad cartoon myself, because I haven’t been inspired to do so. I shy away from drawing cartoons that some people would find offensive. I don’t use four letter words, or the “N-word” in my cartoons. I don’t draw sexually explicit cartoons. Offensive subject matter in cartoons can be so loud that it drowns out anything else I might want to say in a cartoon, except, “Look, I have the freedom to draw something offensive.”
Many cartoonists have drawn Muhammad cartoons, and racist cartoons, and dirty cartoons; that’s fine, that’s their business – but drawing offensive stuff just to draw attention to myself, or to prove that I have the right to do so, just looks like lousy cartooning to me. The Charlie Hebdo cartoonists were doing more than that; they were addressing issues in French culture that were important to them, and rejecting all religions that they felt didn’t fit with their secular society.
I knew three of the five Charlie Hebdo cartoonists who were murdered earlier this year and I got to know more of them at French cartoon festivals. They have a genuine passion for their issues and our conversations always turned to a discussion of their religion-bashing cartoons. Here in America we’re not faced with the same social pressures and similar cartoons here should seem out of place.
I can sympathize with his position. He's basically saying that editorial cartoons are intended to serve as meaningful social commentary, and that the DMC doesn't aspire to such. It's intended to agitate the enemies of free speech, and it doesn't accomplish anything more than that.