Re:Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo
by Oletros on Thursday January 08, 2015 @03:49PM
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> and also publish flat-out racist cartoons
Then it will be easy to provide proof of that, isn't?
Re:Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo
by nemo on Thursday January 08, 2015 @04:31PM
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The one with the racist stereotype caricatures of pregnant women enslaved by Boko Haram saying "don't touch our welfare" seems pretty racist to me (the lame French play on words about child-benefits/wefare is revoltingly callous and mean-spirited). The huge-nosed Jews they feature with discussing Jews are completely racist as well.
Re:Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo
by Oletros on Thursday January 08, 2015 @04:41PM
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Perhaps you lack the context of that image but it is not racist, the contrary, they are criticising Boko Haram AND the French right wing anti immigrant.
And now you will say that when they parody the rural French they are also racists.
Re:Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo
by nemo on Thursday January 08, 2015 @05:00PM
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And the Jews?
Re:Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo
by Oletros on Thursday January 08, 2015 @05:32PM
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Are you aware that they use stereotypes to make the parody?
Perhaps also you will find racist the caricature of Le Pen as a pig
Re:Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo
by nemo on Thursday January 08, 2015 @06:24PM
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>Are you aware that they use stereotypes to make the parody?
Yes, I see what they are doing. It's actually very common to use racist stereotypes in parody and satire. It's also still totally racist to draw huge nosed Jews (and huge-lipped black people). Drawing huge-nosed Jews in the context of criticizing Jews might be parody, but it's not some subtle ironic parody of right-wing ignorance, it's just a crass racist joke.
Re:Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo
by Oletros on Friday January 09, 2015 @01:01AM
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Yes, and drawing pictures of Spanish as toreros is racists, and drawing pictures of French as cheese eaters is racist.
Everything is racist in some minds even if the people drawing those pictures are part of Non Racist organisations.
I'm guessing you didn't really check carefully. They do mock Islam (and Judaism), and also publish flat-out racist cartoons. They're not mutually exclusive. They publish a lot of offensive cartoons, like the one linked to by the OP depicting Boko Haram sex slaves as welfare queens. They should be free to do that without getting murdered by fanatics.