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In lugnet.licensed.batman, Mark Larson wrote:
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In lugnet.licensed.batman, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Here you kick into what I consider to be an alarmist over-reaction yourself.
Do you really think that a comment on a LEGO forum read by a small number of
people is comparable to a cartoon published in a newspaper (and then many
newspapers) which specifically offended certain aspects of a religion at a
time of already heightened tensions?
I agree. But I’m not sure being equally alarmist about the offense is a good
way to deal with it.
Tim
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Hi Tim! I’d rather be talking with you about MOCs, but what can you do,
right?
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But that is why we have .off-topic.debate ;) (which both of us forgot to move
to... sorry, Lugnet)
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Anyway, I’m sure the cartoonist who started that particular
controversy thought the same thing.
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I suspect the cartoonist either didn’t think much at all or consciously set out
to be malicious but we’ll never really know the answer to that. I know that if I
was going to satirise a religious group I’d make sure I found out a bit about
what I was satirising before rushing to offend them.
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Words affect things, people read stuff. I
don’t think it’s an over-reaction-things can have a butterfly effect some
times.
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I agree, but the buttterfly effect is arbitrary. There is nothing to say that
your response mentioning the cartoons may not draw a random search to Richie’s
post that sets any potential (and exceedingly unlikely) commotion off.
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I honestly don’t think Richie’s post is going to start global riots, but if
the wrong person read it, anything can happen. Comparing Arkham Asylum to Abu
Ghraib is much more alarmist than suggesting that people can be alarmist in
reaction to it.
I agree with you that I am exagerrating but I don’t think the alarmism is
equal.
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I just don’t consider Richie’s point to be particularly alarmist (although I
don’t really agree with it either). He didn’t demand that Lego remove it or
anything, merely brought a certain disturbing similarity to their attention.
This is not without precendence given that LEGO have acted on disturbing
similarities before.
Tim
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