Yale Surrenders
Posted: August 18, 2009.
Print: Slate
When Hitchens asked Yale why it removed the images, he was told that Yale had consulted experts and they “confirmed that the re-publication of the cartoons by the Yale University Press ran a serious risk of instigating violence.”
Hitchens writes: “If you instigate something, it means that you wish and intend it to happen. If it’s a riot, then by instigating it, you have yourself fomented it. If it’s a murder, then by instigating it, you have yourself colluded in it….It was bad enough during the original controversy, when most of the news media refused to show the cartoons out of simple fear… Now we have to say that the mayhem we fear is also our fault, if not indeed our direct responsibility.”










Is this where this article belongs? It’s about something shameful but the author doesn’t belong in the “Hall.”
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