THIS is Jezebel's reporting on the Charlie Hebdo tragedy?! Guys, I know you're based in the US, but you have many international readers. You gave BLANKET coverage on the Rolling Stone/sexual politics of the Greek system story a few weeks ago, which to those of us who are not from the US, was frankly indecipherable.…

You don't know that. People have died for their freedoms for centuries. What's not worth it to you, might be worth it to someone else. In addition, im pretty sure most people, comedians, cartoonists, regular folk, have a point in saying whatever they're saying. Even if it's a bullshit point. Even if it doesn't match…

Rubbish. Being offended is an opinion of an individual. You have as much right to be offended as the offender has to offend you. It's called freedom. The irony is that extremists function very happily in free societies because they are free. So everyone benefits. We don't get to decide the rules of what is offensive.…

Nobody sane defends extremists who kill abortion doctors. Nobody sane even says, "Well, it's wrong to murder people because of your beliefs, but you know, those anti-abortion people feel like abortion is murder and a sin, so maybe pro-choice folks shouldn't be so vocal, and there wouldn't be so much heat around the…

Do people here even understand why depictions of the Prophet are forbidden in Sunni Islam?

So, basically, it's fine to make fun of Islam, but if someone doesn't make fun of you in the way you want, they should be shot? I grew up as a practicing Catholic for quite some time - does that mean any time someone made a joke about a priest molesting a boy I had the right to inflict harm upon them?

Actually, that's exactly what it means.

I will add one more thing I noticed: you took the liberty of re-posting these two clearly racist cartoons but avoided re-posting the ones depicting the Prophet. Because you effectively don't have the liberty to do so, because doing so would make you a target in these people's eyes.

These cartoons are racist.

To: all of those saying we should not be praising Hebdo and his organization because they ridiculed already marginalized groups. NO, THEY DID NOT. Their targets were the same as any satirist; tyrants, blowhards, and hypocrites who preach hate instead of following the tenets of their own religion. No peace loving…

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Pokes fun at marginalized communities? Have you actually seen the cartoons? Because they specifically make fun of Islamic terrorists who behead people. If "Islamic terrorists who behead people" is a "marginalized community" you're worried about, I don't agree with you.

Way to bring in your black skin, sister. No one is saying you didn't have a right to be offended, everyone is saying they shouldn't deserve to die like that over a cartoon, which is exactly what you're saying.

Here in America we get offended by the dumb shit people say ALL THE TIME. We get offended by comedians' jokes ALL THE TIME. The issue here is mass murder. I don't know what your news media is reporting, but "no one should have been offended" is not the underlying current here. No one should have been murdered is.

What these terrorists didn't have a right to do is kill innocent people over a cartoon. I don't think you're arguing that they did, so please don't misunderstand me.

I think Ross Douthat, of all people, actually had the best response to this:

You should read about what Charlie Hebdo actually wrote and drew. They satirized all religions and in fact, their latest cover was a satire on an anti-Islamic book written by a Frenchman.

I've been thinking about this all day. I'm a writer and when I think of how these people were trying to do their jobs, to draw attention to things in the world that weren't right and needed to be exposed, it terrifies me. I just keep thinking of their families, who are now missing a loved one, and also my wife who…

Almost every single one I have ever been forced to set foot in looks like a rhinoceros with crippling diarrhea tore through it moments before I got there.

The fact that Lindsay Lohan can afford a vacation to French Polynesia and I can't even afford a vacation to American Florida is proof that there is no justice in the world.