Charlie Hebdo backlash over 'racist' Alan Kurdi cartoon

Well, you know the next time they get hit, they were asking for it.

Right ?

Right ?


Riiiiigggggghhhhhhht.






What would have become of little Alyan if he had grown up ?

Grabbing asses in Germany.

Charlie Hebdo nails it again. Good job!

Yep, it's official, they're offensive.

Fixed it for you, no need to thank me.

The truth is always unpopular and it's often offensive. But I'm grateful for these brave people who are literally putting their lives on the line to keep speaking truth to the vermin.

Correct. Drawing them as ape-like was highly offensive. Highly offensive to apes anyway, which are dignified and intelligent animals that don't behave anything like Muslim males.

The truth is always unpopular and it's often offensive. But I'm grateful for these brave people who are literally putting their lives on the line to keep speaking truth to the vermin.
More like, peddling hate to stir controversy and sell papers. They are basically the Donald Trump of the newspaper world.

Things have been dropping off from them since their only real relevance was the shooting and their offensive cartoons. They were probably told to crank it up a notch.

Where you've invoked the classic liberal 'trigger word' of I'm thinking you're all in favor of the next attack on Charlie Hebdo? Or at least you're ready to say they asked for it, ai-je raison?

Of course not but being a victim doesn't make you a hero either. The attack was terrible and they have every right to publish whatever the hell they want whenever the hell they want. I just see it as desperate and jejune.

As far as being offensive goes, it is not even quality in that regard.

I think this was also encouraged after their anniversary attempt at a cause célèbre turned out to be a total and complete flop that went almost completely unnoticed. I guess they can't exactly be faulted for their shoddy work considering most of the staff is new.

Maybe in time they will actually come up with something profound and insightful instead of being a right winged charity case for hate.

Seriously though, "hey remember that dead kid ? if he was alive he would of become an ass grabbber like these monkeys."


Wow hilarious and thought provoking. /sarcasm

I doubt Hebdo is staffed by right-wingers. More like liberals who had no choice but through the hard lesson they received to finally see reality for what it is.

Charlie Hebdo never had much of a circulation, and were it not for the events of a year ago would probably have slowly withered away. As the article says, there is dissent among the staffers too. This sort of stuff is their only way to get attention. Profound and insightful was never on their radar.

That said, I guess I'm jejune, since I get a laugh out of the cover. I say go for it, especially since they sling arrows at all sorts of targets. Certainly nothing they put out excuses violent attacks on them. I do think some of our CKA bretheren would be singing a different tune if one of their own sacred cows got gored. We've seen lots of posts here about somebody deserving a punch in the face for saying something insulting. The usual double standard.

@thanos

Ok, that could be true, most of what they print has an atheist perspective, the anti-immigrant angle could be construed as right winged and nationalistic though. Either way, they survive on shock value and maybe you are right about them having changed. Perhaps too tainted for satire anymore.

Probably. Shock humour has a limited life span, except maybe in the case of a pig like Howard Stern. Frank Magazine in Canada ran it's course then disappeared when the readers finally got bored with the endless cheap shots at Mulroney and Chretien. Something similar will eventually happen to Hebdo as well, depending on how the whims of French political and social humour go.

I support CH in the full knowledge of the things they say about Christians, gun owners, and the USA in general.

Just thought you needed some clarity on that.