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Mocking is still legal in the West. But not for long. Mocking anything but white men/Christianity creates huge uproar today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/09/1...

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[trehalose]

Mocking white men/Christianity doesn't create huge uproar? Hasn't there been a huge uproar about a "War on Christmas" for years where people get mad when baristas say "happy holidays"? Hard to believe that something so innocuous could generate Christian outrage but mocking Christianity couldn't.

[jmbi]

See the thousands of conversations on Twitter that end in "it's not possible to be racist against white people."

[humanrebar]

"Happy Holidays!" maps to "But All Lives Matter!"

Being generic and being inclusive aren't the same thing.

And, besides, most of the anger was at public and private policymakers, not nice people wishing each other well.

[Chris2048]

Yeah, they get mad. But how many lawsuits are there? How many incidents of violence?

[tim333]

That particular cartoon is pretty bad. There's a lot of other mocking you can get away with.