I'm trying to read a bit about Charlie Hebdo, their views, and what the French particularly think of them and their satire. I'm getting the impression that calling them all "a bunch of racist, xenophobic, homophobic frenchmen" seems to be a surface level generalisation. They were certainly agitators. Anyone who depicts a picture of Muhammed is trying to give the middle finger to extremism, and perhaps (inadvertently or not) will be offending a lot of normal, law abiding, practicing Muslims, too.
But, even if I'm wrong, I think it's important to have a conversation on this type of satire. Particularly if one person thinks it's incredibly racist, homophobic, and xenophobic and another thinks it isn't - and not as a result of their own inane racism.
Also, Varrok, was I the one who called you a dirty Oddworld hater? It doesn't sound like me but who knows?
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