Certainly there are probably numerous articles and cartoons featured in Charlie Hebdo that our editors would have taken to task for being racially, religiously, sexually, and any number of other ‘lly’s insensitive. And therein lies the real failure of those who perpetrated this morning’s violence, should their actions, as it truly seems, have been motivated by a desire to silence. If they hadn’t decided to pay the wages of pen and paper with death, there might have been a discussion to be had here about racist or sexist government policies that masquerade as “secularism,” or in the responsibility of Charlie Hebdo‘s (or anyone’s) satire to choose its targets bravely, but also precisely and nobly. But instead, people were killed over art.