{"id":3704,"date":"2010-04-27T11:02:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T09:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2010-04-27T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T09:02:42","slug":"warum-die-zensur-von-south-park-wichtig-ist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2010\/04\/27\/warum-die-zensur-von-south-park-wichtig-ist_3704","title":{"rendered":"Warum die Zensur von South Park wichtig ist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verschiedene Mitblogger hier haben Unverst\u00e4ndnis bekundet f\u00fcr meine h\u00e4ufigen <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2010\/04\/23\/die-wahrheit-uber-south-park-und-die-islamisten_3675\">Posts zum Thema<\/a>. Ich bleibe dabei: Es handelt sich bei der Selbstzensur von Comedy Central, MTV und Apple in Sachen South Park aber nicht um eine &#8222;Petitesse&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Oder anders gesagt: Aus vielen solchen Petitessen ergibt sich die Selbstabschaffung der Freiheit. Sehr sch\u00f6n hat das in der <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/26\/opinion\/26douthat.html?src=me&amp;ref=general\">New York Times <\/a>der konservative Kolumnist Ross Douthat erkl\u00e4rt:<\/p>\n<p><em>In a way, the muzzling of \u201cSouth Park\u201d is no more disquieting than any other example of Western institutions\u2019 cowering before the threat of Islamist violence. It\u2019s no worse than the German opera house that temporarily suspended performances of Mozart\u2019s opera \u201cIdomeneo\u201d (&#8230;). Or Random House\u2019s decision to cancel the publication of a novel about the prophet\u2019s third wife. Or Yale University Press\u2019s refusal to publish the controversial Danish cartoons &#8230; in a book about the Danish cartoon crisis.(&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But there\u2019s still a sense in which the \u201cSouth Park\u201d case is particularly illuminating. Not because it tells us anything new about the lines that writers and entertainers suddenly aren\u2019t allowed to cross. But because it\u2019s a reminder that Islam is just about the only place where we draw any lines at all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Across 14 on-air years, there\u2019s no icon \u201cSouth Park\u201d hasn\u2019t trampled, no vein of shock-comedy (sexual, scatalogical, blasphemous) it hasn\u2019t mined. (&#8230;) Our culture has few taboos that can\u2019t be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Except where Islam is concerned. There, the standards are established under threat of violence, and accepted out of a mix of self-preservation and self-loathing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that \u201cbravely\u201d trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Happily, today\u2019s would-be totalitarians are probably too marginal to take full advantage. This isn\u2019t Weimar Germany, and Islam\u2019s radical fringe is still a fringe, rather than an existential enemy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For that, we should be grateful. Because if a violent fringe is capable of inspiring so much cowardice and self-censorship, it suggests that there\u2019s enough rot in our institutions that a stronger foe might be able to bring them crashing down.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Dank an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sprachkasse.de\/blog\/\">Chajm Guski<\/a> f\u00fcr den Tip.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verschiedene Mitblogger hier haben Unverst\u00e4ndnis bekundet f\u00fcr meine h\u00e4ufigen Posts zum Thema. Ich bleibe dabei: Es handelt sich bei der Selbstzensur von Comedy Central, MTV und Apple in Sachen South Park aber nicht um eine &#8222;Petitesse&#8220;. Oder anders gesagt: Aus vielen solchen Petitessen ergibt sich die Selbstabschaffung der Freiheit. 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