• Charlie Hebdo unveils Paris attacks cover
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[t]http://imgkk.com/i/ls2c.png[/t] "They have the weapons. Fuck them, we have the champagne!" [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-attacks-charlie-hebdo-responds-a6737531.html[/url] [quote]Charlie Hebdo, the French magazine that lost 11 staff members when attacked in January, has released a defiant message following the latest attack on Paris.[/quote]
That's cheeky as fuck.
[QUOTE=draugur;49132669]That's cheeky as fuck.[/QUOTE] I would say distasteful.
Credit where credit is due, they aren't discriminatory with whom they are distasteful with.
[QUOTE=sparky28000;49132674]I would say distasteful.[/QUOTE] A little, maybe. I think their heart is in a good place, though.
[QUOTE=pdp;49132719]A little, maybe. I think their heart is in a good place, though.[/QUOTE] There's no "maybe"; distasteful isn't even their bread and butter, it's the flour for which they make their bread. But their doing this to grab as much attention as possible with their macabre and taboo humour so that the people that read into it later know what the fuck is going on.
[QUOTE=sparky28000;49132674]I would say distasteful.[/QUOTE] I disagree, the Saturday afternoon and evening after the attacks people were back in the streets with friends. They were eating, drinking, and standing against what ISIS tried to do - cause terror. This cover shows that, they may have guns to terrorize but the people of France will keep partying/being happy/celebrating without letting ISIS get to them.
[QUOTE=EuSKalduna;49132750]There's no "maybe"; distasteful isn't even their bread and butter, it's the flour for which they make their bread. But their doing this to grab as much attention as possible with their macabre and taboo humour so that the people that read into it later know what the fuck is going on.[/QUOTE] No, I totally understand. Charlie Hebdo is pissed. This is their middle finger to those Jihad fucks. I can see how someone might misunderstand if they didn't know what the publication was all about, though.
They are a political comic, of course they are going to go for shock value. Some may say this is too soon, butthey know that there is nothing more we can do than acknowledge it happened and move on. I'm pretty sure isis wants us to dwell on shit like this, Hebdo is basically saying "Fuck you we are still better than you"
Haha yes! Fuck you ISIS!
I don't think it's shocking at all. It shows they (the terrorists) didn't scare the Frenchs.
I don't see anything wrong with it. It's the right response to terrorism.
Did people really expect Charlie Hebdo to hold themselves in? Not even a bomb stops Charlie Hebdo.
[QUOTE=sparky28000;49132674]I would say distasteful.[/QUOTE] If I'd have any word to describe it, it would be consistency. Consistent in having the same kind of response every time. Consistent, regardless of whether it is a response to [url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/charlie-hebdo-plane-crash-cartoons-anger-russians-151109054925078.html]the Russian plane attack[/url] or a terrorist attack right across the street, merely 10 months after having been attacked themselves. The consistency shows that they're everything but hypocritical. They have the same reaction regardless of whether it happens to them or someone else. Them mocking the news is important. It teaches us what freedom of speech [I]really[/I] means.
[QUOTE=FPtje;49132932]If I'd have any word to describe it, it would be consistency. Consistent in having the same kind of response every time. Consistent, regardless of whether it is a response to [url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/charlie-hebdo-plane-crash-cartoons-anger-russians-151109054925078.html]the Russian plane attack[/url] or a terrorist attack right across the street, merely 10 months after having been attacked themselves. The consistency shows that they're everything but hypocritical. They have the same reaction regardless of whether it happens to them or someone else. Them mocking the news is important. It teaches us what freedom of speech [I]really[/I] means.[/QUOTE] i'd actually say the opposite. yeah it's a joke on behalf of the people that died like their other stuff but it's also a fairly serious show of solidarity for once, like "look how unintimidated we are." as opposed to their one on the plane attack which was borderline farcical not that there's anything wrong with this one it just seems quite preferential to me in its presentation
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Think it's a better attitude than focusing on the loss. It acknowledges it and tries to do something other than wallow at least in my opinion.
Never was funny. Never will be.
[QUOTE=Kannata;49133963]Never was funny. Never will be.[/QUOTE] It's not meant to be funny, it's daring/provocative.
I know they're very in the public eye now, but this really shouldn't be surprising since shock humour is kinda their thing?
[QUOTE=Gwoodman;49133975]It's not meant to be funny, it's daring/provocative.[/QUOTE] damn! genius!!!
[QUOTE=Kannata;49134005]damn! genius!!![/QUOTE] It's pretty normal, doesn't take a genius to understand it.
[QUOTE=Kannata;49134005]damn! genius!!![/QUOTE] They are like this since.. Forever. Why the suddenly frown upon it and take that everything they make is considered solely to be funny?
[QUOTE=Kannata;49133963]Never was funny. Never will be.[/QUOTE] Damn, talk about missing the point
Charlie hebdo isn't even funny.
[QUOTE=proboardslol;49134095]Charlie hebdo isn't even funny.[/QUOTE] Maybe because you don't read it and it's in French ? eh ?
[QUOTE=Kannata;49134005]damn! genius!!![/QUOTE] It's a political cartoon, not fucking Garfield.
I don't think it's distasteful or anything, but it does seem a little... weak? I could totally see the exact same cartoon being used by the Jihadis to mock French weakness along the lines of: "All they do is get drunk while we destroy them." Obviously they didn't mean it that way. It just seems pretty easy to interpret from either side as positive, especially if you don't speak French and can't read the text along with it.
[QUOTE=sparky28000;49132674]I would say distasteful.[/QUOTE] Very much tasteful after what they published on the airliner going down.
[QUOTE=Kannata;49134005]damn! genius!!![/QUOTE] a few days after a terrorist attack shocked the world, and what do you think the best reaction is? should we cower in fear and live under the guise that, at any moment, we might be killed by an extremist? shall we start fearmongering and giving the threat a stereotype, a face? how many muslims, no, regular people of middle eastern descent have already been marginalized and experienced racism on a societal level? look at what happened in the United States; we gave in to terror and knee-jerk invaded the middle east while portraying brown skin, a turban, and facial hair as "the identity of the terrorist" sure it might be edgy, but i'd rather have a distasteful yet rebellious response than to just take the bait and allow terrorism to keep reaming us up the ass
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