stargazer 3,343 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 A cartoon in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has caused online shock by suggesting drowned toddler Alan Kurdi would have grown up to be a sexual abuser like those immigrants allegedly involved in the assaults in Cologne. Under the headline “Migrantsâ€, the drawing shows two lascivious pig-like men with their tongues hanging out chasing two terrified, screaming women who are running away. An insert at the top the cartoon contains the famous image of the three-year-old Syrian boy laying face down dead in the sand. The question at the top of the drawing “What would little Aylan have grown up to be?†is answered at the bottom by “Ass groper in Germanyâ€. The implication that all refugees grow up to be gropers has outraged many, but some people have defended the cartoon and interpreted it as a satire on tabloid perceptions of refugees. Kurdi’s death on a beach in Turkey last year galvanised public opinion, and the widespread sympathy for the humanitarian crisis put pressure on European governments. But public opinion has turned in places after hundreds of claims of assaults by immigrants on women on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Germany. Police and the media have been accused of deliberately under-reporting the events in order not to encourage anti-immigrant sentiment. The cartoon was published a week after the anniversary of the attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, when free speech organisations came together to proclaim the importance of protecting dissenting voices. Tweets by a number of writers with a photograph of the Charlie Hedbo cartoon provoked intense debate about whether the cartoon is overtly racist or is an attempt to satirise media coverage of refugees in Europe. Sunny Hundal called it “disgustingâ€. Financial Times journalist Christopher Thompson suggested it may be a satire on “sweeping stereotypes about migrants†and not racist at all. But Libyan American Hend Amry took offence and interpreted the cartoon as Charlie Hebdo saying “this drowned baby Syrian refugee would have grown up to sexually harass German womenâ€. Another Twitter commenter, @the_itch1980, said the magazine was hiding behind the principles of satire and free speech but was actually racist. The ABC’s Middle East correspondent Sophie McNeill said on Twitter the cartoon was “outrageousâ€, and many agreed with her. Source: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/14/charlie-hebdo-cartoon-depicting-drowned-child-alan-kurdi-sparks-racism-debate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S Q U I S H Y 1,770 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 There is a fine line between satire and racism. This is not only racism, it also mocks the death of an innocent child which is disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun☼Shine 4,273 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 There is a fine line between satire and racism. This is not only racism, it also mocks the death of an innocent child which is disgusting. This is all that needs to be said. They're disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mees Madds 36,578 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 How can they defend this? It's disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soko 6,454 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 charlie hebdo was always trash and gross but this is really disgusting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
night vale. 8,071 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 .......... How is this ok Also throwing a bunch of stereotypes into one picture =/= satire. If anything, the caption and images that follow almost sound like propaganda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abra 40,910 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 yeah they're trash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aireena 613 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 wtf this is disgusting, his poor family... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellla 1,996 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 There is a fine line between satire and racism. This is not only racism, it also mocks the death of an innocent child which is disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Dove 10,782 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 simply disgusting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachtea 1,885 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Charlie Hebdo is entitled to their freedom of speech, but there is a fine line between satire and being blatantly disgusting. They crossed that line with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonicPotato 2,197 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 my first thought was that it was a way to satirize the treatment by the media, which links the migrants to the sexual harrasment cases tbh, but it's in poor taste either way (which is not surprising, because Charlie Hebdo is in pretty poor taste in general) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miwa201 8,386 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Charlie Hebdo has always been shit. I'm Bosnian and a couple of months ago I randomly stumbled upon the covers they did during the Bosnian war. They were extremely offensive and whoever was in charge can go fuck themselves. People need to stop acting as if criticizing the magazine means that you supported the massacre. There is a fine line between satire and shitty behavior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphine 20,871 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Charlie Hebdo has always been racist and super gross for YEARS. I have been saying it, for YEARS. Hence why I was not "Charlie" last year, and will never be. They don't deserve to be killed, but they deserve to be criticized, heavily. This is getting worse and worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonSone 30,138 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 There is a fine line between satire and racism. This is not only racism, it also mocks the death of an innocent child which is disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North and South 4,680 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Charlie Hebdo is entitled to their freedom of speech, but there is a fine line between satire and being blatantly disgusting. They crossed that line with this. Why are the values of free speech applied so inconsistently, especially in France? Would a tabloid be allowed to make a similar cartoon about the Holocaust or about slavery? No, and the reason why not is very clear. Why then are they allowed to make racist attacks against immigrants who are Muslim? Just to be clear I condemn the terror attacks just as any human being with a sense of decency would. But just as I condemn the killings of innocents, so do I condemn racists who mock the death of a child and blatantly stereotype innocent immigrants fleeing war for money, for sport or for so called "satire". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachtea 1,885 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Why are the values of free speech applied so inconsistently, especially in France? Would a tabloid be allowed to make a similar cartoon about the Holocaust or about slavery? No, and the reason why not is very clear. Why then are they allowed to make racist attacks against immigrants who are Muslim? Just to be clear I condemn the terror attacks just as any human being with a sense of decency would. But just as I condemn the killings of innocents, so do I condemn racists who mock the death of a child and blatantly stereotype innocent immigrants fleeing war for money, for sport or for so called "satire". Everyone on this earth is entitled to their human right of free speech, not matter the content. I'm not defending CH in any way, I'd much rather they disappear, but they ARE entitled to their racist opinions because in France free speech is a fundamental right. They are committing no crime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delincious 5,654 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Whats great with satire is that the most obvious interpretation is never the right one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North and South 4,680 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Everyone on this earth is entitled to their human right of free speech, not matter the content. I'm not defending CH in any way, I'd much rather they disappear, but they ARE entitled to their racist opinions because in France free speech is a fundamental right. They are committing no crime. "The Press Law of 1881, as amended, guarantees freedom of the press, subject to several exceptions. The Pleven Act of 1972 (after Justice Minister René Pleven) prohibits incitement to hatred, discrimination, slander and racial insults.[94][95] The Gayssot Act of 1990 prohibits any racist, anti-Semite, or xenophobic activities, including Holocaust denial.[95] The Law of 30 December 2004 prohibits hatred against people because of their gender, sexual orientation, or disability.[96]" They are committing crimes and it is against the law in France. They are just fined repeatedly as punishment (and that's really only the case with Holocaust denial and drug positivity) while they continue to spew out their BS because they aren't given any real punishment. Also there is a real double standard present within our establishment today about what you can and can't get away with under the term "freedom of speech" which is why a lot of people were pissed. "In 2006, the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo released a special issue which featured cartoons pertinent to Islam, including some from the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. A Muslim organization initiated criminal proceedings against Philippe Val, editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, for insulting a group of people because of their religion. In March 2007, the court of first instance acquitted Val. The first court of appeal confirmed the lower court's judgment on the ground that the cartoons targeted only terrorists or fundamentalists——not the whole Muslim community.[1][5][7] On 18 January 2007, a tribunal in Lyon sentenced Bruno Gollnisch to a three-month, suspended prison-term and a fine of €5,000 for the offense of contesting information about the Holocaust. The court also ordered him to pay €55,000 euros in damages to the plaintiffs and to pay for the judgment to be published in the newspapers that originally printed his remarks" In essence it's up to the courts to decide whether or not they feel that a particular instance in one of blasphemy, which is legal in France, or if it is an attack against Muslims as a group. However as can be seen in the above example, again, these are not consistently applied. This in conjunction with France's ban on the headscarf in public schools and institutions, such a hospitals, in a state where "freedom of expression" is apparently so important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unemployedblackman 359 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 It's free speech. You're going to have things like these. If you supported free speech and are now offended by this you're a hypocrite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minnie Muse 567 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 I have never been Charlie Hebdo and i will never stand for his believes . I cannot believe they are mocking the death of a child who tried to escape for a better life . Stereotypes , stereotypes , everywhere . This is the lowest they can get . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MK15 2,108 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 and once again people are not seeing past the image and are getting overly defensive... for a cartoon... taken out of its context (the whole CH issue) also pretty much everyone at Charlie Hebdo was/is on the far left... that says a lot if you know anything about politics... ps: i don't agree with their opinion(s) but i'm certainly not disgusted by a cartoon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azucar 1,132 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 I don't get how anyone can defend this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blank_stare 2,217 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 That kid that's faced down. Is he dead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minnie Muse 567 Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 That kid that's faced down. Is he dead? Yeah . He drowned and died . His mother and sibling also died the same way . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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