Comment by pen2l
11 years ago
But only when they published antisemtic content did they have to do something: http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/152585/charlie-hebdo-fired...
11 years ago
But only when they published antisemtic content did they have to do something: http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/152585/charlie-hebdo-fired...
I actually didn't know about this (was out of France when it happened). Reading on it, it seems according to some articles by people familiar with the situation that part of the reason for this is that there was an internal conflict between the editor and Siné who used this to fire him.
In term of drawings, there's been a few offensive cartoons of jewish as well as christians (but then again, their caricatures and drawings have traditionally always been more offensive than their columns). See for example: http://www.jewpop.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ROD0070417.... or http://www.jewpop.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/antisemitis...
I haven't read it that much (I read it a bit more when I was a student) but I definitely never associated that journal with racism in that they've always seemed equally handed in their offensiveness.
> but I definitely never associated that journal with racism in that they've always seemed equally handed in their offensiveness.
After the boko haram kidnapping of many, many young girls, Charlie Hedbo's cover featured the girls saying "Where's my handout?" http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ddd3904e07d024cc09ecc4d...
That seems to me pretty much as racist as you can get.
Aaaand here's another one: http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a262d9096f3a68dd274198c...
Now, you may come back to me and say that I don't understand the context. But you have to understand that sometimes it doesn't matter what the author meant, it matters what the most readily obvious interpretation is because that's how people will will take it. An author is partly responsible for being mindful of this, and good authors have a good understanding of this.
Just to let you know the context for the second drawing is that some far-right magazine had compared the Minister of Justice to a Monkey on the front page :
http://www.france24.com/en/20131113-france-racism-black-mini...
The drawing is actually denouncing the far-right by a play on word with "Rassemblement Bleu Marine" to "Rassemblement Bleu Racist".
At the time of the publishing, it would have been well understood by the readership this was not an attack on the Minister but rather on the far right.
Regarding the context, let me quote you Cardinal Richelieu: "Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him"