Murder is wrong; speech offends

Daniel Fincke from Camels and Hammers answers some of the worst Charlie Hebdo memes. This one is particularly apt:

And when you say “the murder is wrong but the speech was offensive” you are minimizing the murder. Because if you didn’t want to minimize the murder, you could have said “the speech was offensive but murder is wrong”. You can affirm both things if you think the speech was offensive and their massacre was wrong. But which one you put after the “but” shows which you think is most important. It’s the difference between “she was dressed provocatively but no one deserves to get raped” and “no one deserves to get raped, but she was dressed provocatively”. The former is a rejection of victim blaming and the other is an instance of it. In the Charlie Hebdo case your choice is between effectively rejecting victim blaming by saying, “sure, I won’t dispute the point that the cartoons were offensive but the really important thing here is they shouldn’t have been murdered.” Or engaging in victim blaming by saying, “sure, I won’t dispute the point that murder is wrong but the really important thing here is they shouldn’t have been offensive.”