Are you still Charlie?
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talkpoliticsHey, fellow indifferent hypocrites sensitive, peace-loving folks. Can't deny, I was eagerly looking forward to seeing the newest Charlie Hebdo front-page, and their stinging new cartoon that was certainly going to mercilessly lambast and "show it" to the terror perpetrators in Paris.
So now that it's come out, I couldn't help feeling disappointed... and cynical.
Here it is:
France returns to normalcy, it says in a nutshell. And that's it. WAIT, THAT'S IT!? What?
Where's the biting, bitter, spot-on sarcasm? Why the muted coyness? It wasn't so long ago that we saw the open-minded satirists depicting a Russian plane being fucked in the ass by a missile. Skulls were raining on a beach from the sky, etc, etc. And what's this, now?
See, we have a nice proverb here. "Even a hundred hits with a stick are too few if they're on someone else's back". Or something to that effect. But when it's YOUR back, well...
This is much in continuation of yesterday's post (thanks OP, good point). It's just that "those others over there" are not exactly as human as we are - well, sure, they're still men, women and children... And those others over there do have faces, lives, fates, relatives... names. But, well... when it's OUR men, women and children, with their faces, lives, fates and relatives, who are affected, then making a mockery of them is kind of inappropriate - even for a group like Charlie Hebdo. So let's just display a ghost with a loaf of bread, suggesting in a bittersweet way that Paris has been turned into a ghost-town (and by extension, Europe's innocence has been besmirched or something), and be done with it. Look, there isn't even a bomb sticking out of his ass. I.Am.Disappoint.
Another proverb here says, "Don't be too happy if you see the grizzly bear dancing around your neighbor's backyard. It'll come knocking at your door soon, too".
So when the bomb-belts started exploding in your backyard, dear Charlie Hebdos of the world, you lost the guts too fast. Your courage instantly flew out the window. Where are the sarcastic depictions of turban-clad men with bloodied yataghans? Where's the banter about Muhammad the dumbass wiping his jizz-stained hand in his beard after some intense fapping, and Hollande the Avenger, standing tall with fighter-jets in each hand? I can't see them.
A ghost with a loaf of bread - that's what you've turned into, overnight. Am I sounding too gloaty? Sorry about that. But you were, too, when "those others over there" were dying by the scores. Of course, you're fully entitled to your blatant insensitivity masquerading as "freedom of speech". So you better be prepared to own it.
And before you charge me with pathological douchebaggery at the court of public judging, let me ask you something. Save for putting a French flag on your Facebook wall, did you contribute with anything else for mitigating the pain of those currently hurting across France? I thought so. In that case, do me the courtesy and spare me your outrage.
So now that it's come out, I couldn't help feeling disappointed... and cynical.
Here it is:
France returns to normalcy, it says in a nutshell. And that's it. WAIT, THAT'S IT!? What?
Where's the biting, bitter, spot-on sarcasm? Why the muted coyness? It wasn't so long ago that we saw the open-minded satirists depicting a Russian plane being fucked in the ass by a missile. Skulls were raining on a beach from the sky, etc, etc. And what's this, now?
See, we have a nice proverb here. "Even a hundred hits with a stick are too few if they're on someone else's back". Or something to that effect. But when it's YOUR back, well...
This is much in continuation of yesterday's post (thanks OP, good point). It's just that "those others over there" are not exactly as human as we are - well, sure, they're still men, women and children... And those others over there do have faces, lives, fates, relatives... names. But, well... when it's OUR men, women and children, with their faces, lives, fates and relatives, who are affected, then making a mockery of them is kind of inappropriate - even for a group like Charlie Hebdo. So let's just display a ghost with a loaf of bread, suggesting in a bittersweet way that Paris has been turned into a ghost-town (and by extension, Europe's innocence has been besmirched or something), and be done with it. Look, there isn't even a bomb sticking out of his ass. I.Am.Disappoint.
Another proverb here says, "Don't be too happy if you see the grizzly bear dancing around your neighbor's backyard. It'll come knocking at your door soon, too".
So when the bomb-belts started exploding in your backyard, dear Charlie Hebdos of the world, you lost the guts too fast. Your courage instantly flew out the window. Where are the sarcastic depictions of turban-clad men with bloodied yataghans? Where's the banter about Muhammad the dumbass wiping his jizz-stained hand in his beard after some intense fapping, and Hollande the Avenger, standing tall with fighter-jets in each hand? I can't see them.
A ghost with a loaf of bread - that's what you've turned into, overnight. Am I sounding too gloaty? Sorry about that. But you were, too, when "those others over there" were dying by the scores. Of course, you're fully entitled to your blatant insensitivity masquerading as "freedom of speech". So you better be prepared to own it.
And before you charge me with pathological douchebaggery at the court of public judging, let me ask you something. Save for putting a French flag on your Facebook wall, did you contribute with anything else for mitigating the pain of those currently hurting across France? I thought so. In that case, do me the courtesy and spare me your outrage.
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Date: 18/11/15 08:59 (UTC)Now that's a couple of cartoons I'd love to see.
Great
Date: 18/11/15 09:16 (UTC)RE: Great
Date: 18/11/15 09:22 (UTC)RE: Great
Date: 18/11/15 09:23 (UTC)RE: Great
Date: 18/11/15 11:05 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 18/11/15 11:04 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 18/11/15 12:26 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 18/11/15 12:34 (UTC)Or, as Mel Brooks put it:"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
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Date: 18/11/15 12:42 (UTC)This warrants a daily quote, I think.
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Date: 18/11/15 17:03 (UTC)Not this time. And like you said, there's a good reason for this sudden self-restraint.
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Date: 18/11/15 17:09 (UTC)(frozen) (no subject)
Date: 25/11/15 10:03 (UTC)Charlie's back has taken plenty of hits over the last year.
10 months ago you were castigating them for being deliberately offensive and provoking terrorism, now you're going to castigate them for not being offensive enough?
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Date: 25/11/15 15:16 (UTC)(frozen) (no subject)
Date: 25/11/15 15:37 (UTC)Nothing remotely similar to that has happened anywhere around this post. You're trolling. Again. Blatantly and deliberately. You've been warned (http://talk-politics.livejournal.com/2010881.html?thread=150231297#t150231297) against using the strawman tactic multiple times (http://talk-politics.livejournal.com/2018295.html?thread=150286327#t150286327) before. There's been no result.
Like I said the last time, your next such case would be your last. So there it is.
Be advised that you're no longer wanted in this community. Do not come back under any guise.