I found this article helpful in defining the humor and provocation and mindset of Charlie Hebdo. It will allow some readers, but not all, to reconfirm their unequivocal support not only for Charlie Hebdos right to say what they said, but for their actual message. ...some have characterised as the overt racism of Charlie Hebdo’s imagery. For example, Charlie Hebdo published a caricature of the French Minister of Justice, Christiane Taubira – who happens to be black – as a monkey. The kind of imagery...would be completely beyond the pale of political discourse in the Anglophone world, and for good reason. So why was it used by Charlie Hebdo? The accompanying caption offers a clue: Rassemblement bleue raciste, a pun on the name of Rassemblement bleu Marine, a political coalition set up by far-right politician Marine Le Pen – who recently called the left-wing Taubira a “monkey”. The caricature therefore does something that few Anglophone cartoonists would dare attempt: it uses overtly racist imagery as a means of satirising racism.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 20:32:33 +0000
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