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onager

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3. Thanks! Jerry Coyne on the same subject today...

Reply to mr blur (Original post)

Wed Apr 29, 2015, 11:54 AM

Apr 2015

Including comments by Robert Wilson, Charlie Hebdo's only English-speaking writer (he's Irish).

Along with other sane people, Wilson notes that before using "islamopobe" and "racist" on the dead cartoonists, it's critical to understand French. And even more important, to understand something about current French politics.

CH was often attacked for cartoons stripped of their context. And sometimes even stripped of their captions. Which ended with the ridiculousness of CH being attacked as racists, when the very cartoons used as proof of their racism were satires of the racism on the French Far Right.

Jebus, we live in crazy times...

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/charlie-hebdo-was-neither-racist-nor-islamophobic/

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So spot on. n/t trotsky Apr 2015 #1

Perfect. PoutrageFatigue Apr 2015 #2

Thanks! Jerry Coyne on the same subject today... onager Apr 2015 #3

Oh way to ruin everything by bringing up context. beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #6

I'd award the internets but ..... Warren Stupidity Apr 2015 #4

"appropriate, non-murderworthy satire" beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #5