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Charlie Hebdo, the context
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kiaaYes, they're at it again. And yes, it's been outrageous and it has sparked an outrage and everyone is angry and all that stuff:
Charlie Hebdo cartoon on Turkey earthquake sparks outrage
Freedom of speech aside, it'd inevitably make you wonder: why are these guys really doing this? What are they all about? What sort of human being mocks innocent people suffering from a natural disaster? Well, here's the context about Charlie Hebdo.
Basically, they are a 70's paper with deep anti-clerical and socialo-anarchist roots. Their motto is that absolutely nothing is sacred or taboo and that you should be able to talk about and make fun of everything.
They spent 5 decades shitting on the French army, the French right wing parties and politicians, the French patronat, laissez-faire capitalism and pretty much every religion you can think of. Whenever there is a crisis or natural disaster somewhere, they have always made provocative or nonsensical covers about them.
But ever since the terrorist attack, two crowds have been constantly bitching about CH: the religious nutjobs from the Middle East and their "Americanized" leftist useful idiots who get offended as soon as someone dares to make fun of innocent BIPOCs and their wondrous exotic beliefs (yet you never hear them cry wolf when CH mocks acceptable targets such as Jews, magatards or French Catholic tradies...)
In a nutshell, as far as I can tell, they're shitposters of so-so quality who got world famous after some religious fanatic nutjob went postal in their office.
So there is not much to understand really about Charlie Hebdo. Most of what they do make me go "Ok" and move on. They can be funny or thought-provoking on rare occasions which I recognize but mostly they are about shitposts and constantly testing freedom of speech.
They still have a great use similar to the canaries in coal mines: as long as they are still publishing we know we still have pretty decent freedom of speech. And that's about it.
Of course, all that said, there are all sorts of folks and parties with an agenda all over the world who'd be willing to utilize their existence to their own purposes.
Charlie Hebdo cartoon on Turkey earthquake sparks outrage
Freedom of speech aside, it'd inevitably make you wonder: why are these guys really doing this? What are they all about? What sort of human being mocks innocent people suffering from a natural disaster? Well, here's the context about Charlie Hebdo.
Basically, they are a 70's paper with deep anti-clerical and socialo-anarchist roots. Their motto is that absolutely nothing is sacred or taboo and that you should be able to talk about and make fun of everything.
They spent 5 decades shitting on the French army, the French right wing parties and politicians, the French patronat, laissez-faire capitalism and pretty much every religion you can think of. Whenever there is a crisis or natural disaster somewhere, they have always made provocative or nonsensical covers about them.
But ever since the terrorist attack, two crowds have been constantly bitching about CH: the religious nutjobs from the Middle East and their "Americanized" leftist useful idiots who get offended as soon as someone dares to make fun of innocent BIPOCs and their wondrous exotic beliefs (yet you never hear them cry wolf when CH mocks acceptable targets such as Jews, magatards or French Catholic tradies...)
In a nutshell, as far as I can tell, they're shitposters of so-so quality who got world famous after some religious fanatic nutjob went postal in their office.
So there is not much to understand really about Charlie Hebdo. Most of what they do make me go "Ok" and move on. They can be funny or thought-provoking on rare occasions which I recognize but mostly they are about shitposts and constantly testing freedom of speech.
They still have a great use similar to the canaries in coal mines: as long as they are still publishing we know we still have pretty decent freedom of speech. And that's about it.
Of course, all that said, there are all sorts of folks and parties with an agenda all over the world who'd be willing to utilize their existence to their own purposes.
