I didn't send anything re: this topic on my KF? Cynthia -----Original Message----- From: Cynthia Vance <facilitationfla@aol.com> To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net>; Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Tue, Sep 18, 2012 6:33 pm Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Free Speech Sent from my Kindle Fire From: Wayne Nelson <wnelson@ica-associates.ca> Sent: Tue Sep 18 11:59:33 EDT 2012 To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Free Speech I agree with Ken. There is a legal question related to hate crime. 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. 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. 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. Every time we get people to work together, solve problems and resolve conflicts, we knock a brick out of that wall. \/ - - - - - - - - - - Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.ca O - 416-691-2316 M - 647-229-6910 Dialogue mailing list Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net