From Kenan Malik's 10-18-20 GUARDIAN article entitled "The Freedom to Offend is a Priceless Commodity":
The details are still emerging, but the horror is clear – the beheading of a teacher, Samuel Paty, in Paris, apparently in response to his using Charlie Hebdo cartoons in a classroom discussion on free speech.
After such attacks there are always claims that “free speech isn’t worth it”. Hardly had news begun filtering out about the 2015 Charlie Hebdo murders than there were suggestions that the cartoonists had brought it on themselves. The same will no doubt happen again.
But in such moments, we need to do the opposite: to reaffirm commitments to free speech and the freedom to offend.
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