Christopher Hitchens vs. Shashi Tharoor (3-9)

[srikiraju]

There's idealism and then there's reality. People are going to get offended regardless of what you do. "Free speech" is only as free as your community allows you. The governments can only protect you so much. This is Shashi Tharoors' point. Can't do shit against a mob of crazy people man. :/

[sooperfukker]

I thought it was the purpose of Satire to cause offence ?!?

[solidarity2205]

I too am for free speech, someone asked me what if someone publishes nude/pornograhic doctored images of your mother or sister? what would I do? I had no answer.

[droitnow]

@solidarity2205 Tell them you would find the publisher and kill him/her and anyone else who helped him/her do it. Then blow up the building where the publisher is based. You'll be fine - the world media will take your side because you were offended.

[yourjunk420]

Fuck Islam, Mohammed, and any other religion. Now, come find me and try to impose your righteous laws, and see what happens. Some might forget that some people aren't afraid of religious bullies and are more capable of delivering a vicious beatdown.

[timewilltell7]

hitchens also knows irving is right on a lot of what he says

[peterhejlejensen]

So what Mr. Tharoor concluded is: Muslims are nut-jobs

[RedRuuj]

Tharoor is a cultural relativist dope taken to the extreme. Recognizing differences is certainly a strength, but submitting your own culture for the approval of another is nonsensical at best.

I pose a question of my own.

Since all groups have different ideas, does that mean that they are all wrong?

Certainly not. Let's ask another.

Since all groups have different ideas, does that mean they are all right?

No again.

Tharoor needs a philosophy class. Reactions are capable of being dead wrong.

[Mike12784]

Isn't saying "they knew there would be consequences" much the same as saying when a woman gets raped she was asking for it because she was dressed provocatively

[eruagnostic]

@Shashi,

The claim that JP (the newspaper) added a comment when publishing that the cartoonist was a coward, seems to be false. There was no comment on with the cartoon (the text on the blackboard was not even translated from farsi).

[HiciacetKolas]

Fuck Shashi, fuck this apologist for evil. 

[Vindrion]

This has to be an old interview. To the viewers remarking on Hitchens and his smoking... I figured he'd probably have quit at this point given he has throat cancer or something.

[zefreak]

Tharoor is a coward.

[timewilltell7]

@zefreak

gandhi said hindus are cowards and muslims are bullies

sorry but its true

at least the sikhs never bowed to these fucking mughal imperialists - go hitchens!

see osho - anyone who gives you a belief system is your enemy - fantastic man

[yourjunk420]

@timewilltell7 Well said!!!

[ArinArshavin]

7:58 is that a fake cigarette hitchens is smoking loool

[neocons1345]

Mr Hitchens, i hope you live forever...we need you man...we need your guts and your intellect...

[capoman1]

WTF is Tharoor advocating? He wants us and our authorities to SUCCUMB to "claims of offense," and he is proud of examples where Indian leadership has BLINDLY done so!

It is DISGUSTING that this man calls himself an intellectual, and that he is even on the stage with Hitchens defending such philosophy.

[neocons1345]

@capoman1 well said

[capoman1]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh! Tharoor says of the Muslim cartoons "When you KNOW you're going to create offense, you HAVE to ask yourself why you are doing this." BULL SHIT!!!!!

If you KNOW that you are going to create offense, then you are simply reflecting your KNOWLEDGE of the behavior and attitude of the majority public, that's all. People don't have a RIGHT to get offended; if they did, the n WHERE do you draw that line?

[azmanabdula]

i thought Shashi Tharoor was part of the UN (human rights)

seems like he is apologizing for the abolishment of human rights....

and raising religious rights.......

[ShinobiBoiX]

We need to allow barbarism LOLOLOLO

[Pineconevolved]

I find mosques and churches offensive, their books, their songs, their clothes!! And these nutters are offended by a cartoon, fuck you religion you're useless and has no place in this day and age.

[cocaftw123]

@Pineconevolved Three cheers for frivolous comments..

[Pineconevolved]

@cocaftw123 hip hip

[TomValedro]

@Pineconevolved Lets burn a church.

[prodprod]

So if a bully decides that he's "offended" if someone walks on the public sidewalk in front of his house - so offended that he's going to bash in your head with a sledge hammer if you walk there -- do we respect that? What if his "sensitivity" goes further -- now it's the whole block? What if it's the whole neighborhood? The whole town? Now if anybody walks anywhere he doesn't like, it offends him, so he bashes in their heads with his sledge hammer?

Are we really "respecting" him?

[prodprod]

(cont'd) (2) Or are we just afraid of offending some maniac with a sledge hammer?

All the major religions are nuts, but only Islam is the the "maniac with the sledge hammer" -- you put your foot in the wrong place and they come after you. And it really doesn't matter where you are or who you are.

It's easy to talk of "nuanced approaches" but there's nothing nuanced about a sledge hammer and we ought to have the right to speak on our own streets without fear of being killed.

[maciverandy]

this is my interpretation of muhammed : (... "duh i'm muhammed, i like stoning women"

[eldadevata]

This UN representative is the best example why the UN meetings are so impotent and incompetent at promoting human rights and the global values based on them. This entire “multicultural” vomit, that dare compare every culture as equal, and dare say that some of us must respect ignorance, irrationality and hate just because some are or chose to be retarded even in the 21 century, is preposterous. No wonder religious and national fanatism is on the rise.

[Whatever4690]

@eldadevata Lol a sane man in a sea of madness,thumbs up.