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You're making the "hate speech" argument, right?
The "inciteful, inflammatory" stuff that's "likely to cause riots", that kinda thing?
Well, how "robust" do you think our concept of "free speech" is?
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Actually I wasn't making that argument, I just believe that there are better ways to use free speech and promote a tolerance amongst all people. You can criticize and hate all you want, and if you incite riots, I don't care either. What I am saying is that this doll is doing a disservice to people's understanding of the Muslim religion.
What I take most offense to is how one-sided and inane the doll's dialogue is. Yeah you can have free speech and say whatever you want and become a racist bigot, but I don't believe that enhances how cultures will "come together."
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But that was the whole point. The sooner you start de-sensitizing them, the better off you're gonna be. 'Cause if you don't de-sensitize them, then they're gonna be just as sensitive "tomorrow", and then your problem's gonna go on FOREVER, which would be a bad outcome.
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Honestly this made absolutely no sense whatsoever to me. How will dolls that spew hateful remarks really desensitize us in a "good" way? If anything it seems it would polarize people, because becoming disensitized is not always a good thing. Take violence for example or in this case racism. Sure we shouldn't be so sensative to people's feelings that we censor people's thoughts, but the promotion of steryotypes and hateful images doesn't help the populace either.
I don't think anyone in this post is saying there shouldn't be a doll, but I think some of us can disagree with what the doll is promoting. Yes, free speech is one of the issues around the doll, but so is a disrespectful attack against the muslim religion. It's the exact same reason the KKK is allowed to exist in the United States, but it doesn't mean I have to agree with their message. I think a simplistic doll with the name "mohammed" would be much more effective and ground-breaking than some Chatty Kathy Doll that spews anti-islamic rants.
So buy the doll all you want but if you are simply using the cover of "free speech" as your pretext for your purchase, you might want to realize that you might want to try and buy a "(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) Doll" as well so it will desensitize us to the race problem in the United States.