> I mean killing is wrong, but so is being a dick.

I don't really understand the point you're making. Killing is orders of magnitude more wrong thank "being a dick" (meaning: making an offsensive or bad joke). I'm sure you agree, so I don't see what's the goal of this comparison.

And I think that using Charlie Hebdo in this context is a bad taste. Saying "see, it got people killed, so they were doing something wrong" is basically acknowledging that terrorism works. People that died in Charlie Hebdo did nothing to deserve this.

It's wild what a difference 8 years makes. I remember at the time of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, it was universally condemned across the political spectrum as an attack on journalism and freedom of speech. Only those on the fringes of the political spectrum would have even implied that the cartoonists were remotely at fault.

I'd be very curious how widespread your opinion is these days now that support of artistic censorship has become much more mainstream.

That's ridiculous. The Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack is 100% the fault of the terrorists who carried out the attack. They are the only ones who got people killed. The victims did not get anyone killed. Saying or publishing something that someone else finds offensive is not in the same category as violence. It cannot be meaningfully compared. Any violence is infinitely worse than even the most offensive speech.

Art doesn’t kill people, killers do.

Surprised this has to be said.