Ross Douthat Takes on Underplayed 'South Park' Censorship Story

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:18:00 +0000

Ross Douthat: "But there's still a sense in which the 'South Park' case is particularly illuminating. Not because it tells us anything new about the lines that writers and entertainers suddenly aren't allowed to cross. But because it's a reminder that Islam is just about the only place where we draw any lines at all....This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that 'bravely' trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force."

Clay Waters

Ross Douthat has a good column on Monday, "Not Even In South Park?," on a terrorism and free-speech matter that hasn't gotten much media attention, certainly not at the Times - Comedy Central's self-censorship in the name of a threat by a radical Muslim group angry over two "South Park" episodes featuring images of Muhammad. The text box summed it up: "How Islam became one of the last taboos."

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Ross Douthat Takes on Underplayed 'South Park' Censorship Story