Summary

In October 2020, Samuel Paty, a French teacher, was murdered following a false accusation by a 13-year-old student who claimed he’d shown anti-Muslim bias. The girl had made up the story to cover the fact she had been suspended from school for bad behaviour.

In reality, Paty’s lesson on free speech included optional viewing of Charlie Hebdo cartoons, but he hadn’t excluded anyone. The student’s story triggered a social media campaign led by her father, who, along with others, is now on trial for inciting hatred and connections to Paty’s attacker, an 18-year-old radicalized Chechen.

The school will be named the Samuel Paty School from next year.

  • modifier
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    3717 days ago
    1. Not all rules come from imaginary gods
    2. Most people don’t need rules to keep them from harming others
    • Flax
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      -6117 days ago
      1. Then where do they come from, if there’s no objective morality.

      2. Not true, abortion is becoming rampant because political factions are trying to change a moral fact. Nazi Germany also attacked the Church and started allowing the dehumanisation of Jews through secularism.

      • knightly the Sneptaur
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        3417 days ago

        Then where do they come from, if there’s no objective morality.

        They come from people, of course. Here’s a history lesson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence#History

        Not true, abortion is becoming rampant because political factions are trying to change a moral fact.

        False, abortion rates in the US have been in decline since the 80’s:

        • @2xar
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          1617 days ago

          His point about Nazi’s attacking the Church is also blatantly false BTW. Nazi’s had a bit of a conflict with the Catholic church at the beginning, but they quickly reconciled and pretty much enabled them. Nazi’s also created their own version of Christianity, the biggest difference to other branches being that they claimed Jesus wasn’t actually jew, but of Aryan descent, and Hitler was the new Messiah:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Christianity

      • @Cypher
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        2517 days ago

        NAZI Germany was Christian and endorsed by the Pope you absolute clown

        • Flax
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          -3117 days ago

          The Nazis were absolutely NOT endorsed by the Pope. Romanist bishops were often jailed for speaking out.

            • Flax
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              -1617 days ago

              Nazi breaches of the agreement began almost as soon as it had been signed and intensified afterwards, leading to protest from the Church, including in the 1937 Mit brennender Sorge encyclical of Pope Pius XI. The Nazis planned to eliminate the Church’s influence by restricting its organizations to purely religious activities.

              Read your own article.

              • @Cypher
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                1617 days ago

                Oh no! Leopards ate their faces. What a shame. Who could have seen this coming from fascists.

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                  -1517 days ago

                  A religious organisation agreeing to keep out of politics is fascist?

                  • @Cypher
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                    1117 days ago

                    I cannot believe I need to spell this out for you.

                    Nazis are fascists.

      • Morality is a product of civilisation and community. It’s the ability of groups to decide on a single set of rules by which they would lime to be treated by, as breach of those rules can cause physical or emotional harm. And then there’s simple evolution, where certain “moral rules” allowed civilisations to survive and thrive better than others.

        At no point is “god” required here.

      • @nyctre
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        916 days ago

        Morality comes from the simple shit such as “I don’t like that…maybe I shouldn’t do it to others!” And stuff like “we’re stronger together”. Which even the creatures with tiny brains have managed to figure out before you. Congratulations.