Comments by "Crocfighter .132" (@crocfighter.1322) on "The Russian embassy cartoon" video.

@abdulahirashid5545 This is fundamentally a false equivalence. Satirical publications from individuals--to whom the rights and laws of a country apply--and messages from the official voice of a foreign nation are two entirely separate things. States do not have bills of rights, people do. France is free to criticize what Russia does however it wants, but France cannot or should not interfere with what Charlie Hebdo has to say. Also, having read the wikipedia page of their many incidents, I must say I do not see how these two can be compared. Until someone firebombs the Russian embassy in Paris over this, it has not caused a similar reaction. And even if this somehow provoked the French to the point of war with Russia, they would still be completely un-hypocritical. Because the way you treat your citizens, and the way you treat other countries are never the same. If France's embassy to Saudi Arabia or Iran had posted the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, that would be the same. But you would quite rightly consider that to be very different to what France did do over Charlie Hebdo.
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