A comment by Lady Mondegreen aka Stacy, originally a comment on a Facebook discussion and posted here with permish.
Ironic racism/sexism can be harmful even if the intent is good.
I think it can be–sometimes. And sometimes it can be harmful and also good. [Read more…]
Oh jeez – something I didn’t know – Caroline Fourest is a senior editor of Charlie Hebdo. NBC News talked to her.
A senior editor at Charlie Hebdo says she’s living a nightmare that she could never have prepared for despite years of threats against the magazine.
Caroline Fourest, who has contributed to the satirical magazine for years, told NBC News that she and the staff are working through their shock after the attack, and will show the world they will not be silenced. [Read more…]
Other media are showing the new Charlie Hebdo cover though.
This week’s publication, the first issue of the French satirical weekly since last Wednesday’s deadly attack in Paris, will be offered in 16 languages.
The surviving members of the magazine prepared the edition in the offices of French newspaper Liberation, which said three million copies would be printed. [Read more…]
So the cover of the next Charlie Hebdo appeared on Newsnight, but it doesn’t appear in the story on the BBC website. The story’s headline is “Charlie Hebdo’s latest edition to depict Prophet Muhammad” but the depiction itself is absent. No depiction for you.
The cover of the latest edition of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been published in French media, and depicts the Prophet Muhammad.
The cover shows the Prophet holding a sign reading “I am Charlie”, below the words “all is forgiven”. [Read more…]
Daily Kos has a great collection of cartoons by Cabu for Charlie Hebdo – anti-racism cartoons to be specific.
Below are cartoons drawn over the past several decades by Cabu, one of the most emblematic cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo (if not the most). Cabu was murdered along with his colleagues this past week. He was 75 years old.
Although no media outlet in the US will show you these images, they can all be found online with a simple Google search. [Read more…]
Charlie Klendjian has an eloquent blast of fury at all the what-abouttery and they-were-racistsism over the past five days.
Over the last five days I have listened patiently to the most extraordinarily confused and painful discussions on the rights and wrongs of murdering people who draw cartoons. What an odd response our public discourse has generated towards what is, to my mind at least, a moral issue of the most blinding clarity.
It is to me too, but it might not be. If Charlie Hebdo had been an unquestionably racist xenophobic immigrant-bashing magazine, affiliated with a far-right organization and running editorials demanding expulsions and closed borders – then the moral issue would not be so blindingly clear; not to me. I would agree that people who drew cartoons for such a magazine shouldn’t be murdered, but I would not express any kind of solidarity with them. I wouldn’t consider them colleagues or allies. I wouldn’t mourn them. [Read more…]
Ah, Fox News. As an American, I apologize to the world for Fox News. (Or should I demand that Australians apologize to us?) An actual news organization, the BBC, reports on a faux pas from yesterday.
An American terrorism commentator has apologised for describing Birmingham as a “Muslim-only city” where non-Muslims “don’t go” during a Fox News interview.
The BBC reports that Nigeria estimates the body count in Baga as 150, not 2000 or “hundreds” as it reported over the weekend.
150 of course is still a large number of people, and then of course Nigeria has a motive to undercount…
The defence ministry said this figure included “many of the terrorists” who had attacked the town in Borno state and faced resistance by troops. [Read more…]
The BBC provides a 2 minute video of the Paris march and others in Rio, Moscow, Berlin, and London.
Tim @Beertheist 5 minutes ago
The Simpsons’ ending tonight. #JeSuisCharlie
Lea’s Album @GleeIsAllINeed 2h
Just for this gesture she deserves all the awards.
