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<b>From:</b> Wayne Nelson <wnelson@ica-associates.ca><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tue Sep 18 11:59:33 EDT 2012<br>
<b>To:</b> Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Dialogue] Free Speech<br>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif"><br />I agree with Ken. There is a legal question related to hate crime. <br /><br />This is my observation entirely. Within the Coptic community, there is an anti-Islamic theme born out of real state supported repression that surfaces in the form of totally implausible and extremely derogatory statements about Islam as a religion and Muslims as people. It is ugly and the the statements/stories I have heard are downright foolish. Repressed feelings often emerge in the most grotesque forms. <br /><br />That does not justify any of that behaviour - and it ranges from stupid jokes that misuse language at the expense of islam all the way to something like this film which apparently wraps all of this hate into a narrative. It illuminates the repression in a way that perpetuates and strengthens the narrative. <br /><br />Another thread I think is related to this is the strengthing of the drive to
individualism. It seems to have totally run amok. Had he written today, Neibur might have written a couple more paragraphs and punched a bit harder. Reaching to a sense of common good is pretty difficult. Social consensus - even informal consensus on norms of social behavoiur - is damn difficult to achieve, it seems to me. <br /><br />Every time we get people to work together, solve problems and resolve conflicts, we knock a brick out of that wall.<br /><br />\\/<br /><br /><br />- - - - - - - - - - Wayne Nelson<br />wnelson@ica-associates.ca<br />O - 416-691-2316<br />M - 647-229-6910<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />Dialogue mailing list<br />Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net<br /><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net</a><br /></pre></body></html>