[LGM] should LGM or its site have something to say about Charlie Hebdo?

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

On 15 January 2015 at 13:31, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
> Hi
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> To elaborate, in my personal view, much of Europe there are hate speech laws
> restricting free speech that offends Judeo-Christians, and I sympathise with
> much of the hipocracy accusations on this topic since those laws are
> enforced with state violence.
>
> But that isn't material to LGM. What is, is that I hope to work on more
> libre Arabic fonts this year and in the future, and I would like Muslim
> designers to feel welcome at LGM. I don't think involvement in this issue
> would help with that.

Nor do me.
Actually, my personal view is that I don't think this campaign promotes
peace at all - just more separation and division. What happened is
already bad enough.
It is rather painful when I exercise on trying to imagine myself as a
French Muslin in
the current context, for example.

  js
 -><-


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> On 13 January 2015 at 22:45, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I don't think so.
>>
>> On 13 Jan 2015 22:09, "Gregory Pittman" <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> This issue came up among those involved in the communication team for
>>> LGM.
>>>
>>> In short, should we have something on the site which says either "Je
>>> suis Charlie" or maybe "Nous sommes Charlie"?
>>>
>>> There has been differences of opinion on this, but what seemed to be
>>> tacitly agreed on was that the smaller group of the communications team
>>> should not unilaterally do this without some wider discussion involving
>>> those who take part in LGM.
>>>
>>> We have traditionally been apolitical, yet maybe there is something
>>> special about this incident involving free speech in the graphics and
>>> publishing world.
>>>
>>> Greg
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> --
> Cheers
> Dave
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