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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > A return of Fascism in Europe?
 
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Flowers For Algeria
Dec 3, 2005

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Deltasquid posted:

A late reply, and I'm not an expert on French culture by any means, but considering another newspaper just made this as a homage to Charlie Hebdo:



I'd say that yes, French satire is very much an offensive, hamfisted, "too soon" style that revels in shocking people. (If you haven't seen, the magazine Charb is using to protect himself against bullets is a previous Charlie Hebdo cover that was almost exactly the same with an Egyptian person getting shot while using a Quran as cover.)

Turns out this cover is not at all a homage in its intent, but rather meant as an insult. It comes from the adepts of an extreme-right guru called Alain Soral.
I find the joke of the main cartoon itself to be hilarious, ("Charlie Hebdo sucks, it doesn't stop bullets"), but all the stuff that surrounds it is mean-spirited bullshit. The subheading is "bankrupt newspaper" instead of "irresponsible newspaper", two of the articles mentioned on the cover are "Charlie Hebdo and Hara Kiri [Charlie's predecessor], a treason of left-wing ideals", "Religion, a double standard [something about Jews]", and there's a false ad for a book about the life of Patrick Font, a former collaborator of Charlie Hebdo who went to prison for sexual contact with children (he's depicted holding a child's hand in the caricature).

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Flowers For Algeria
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Bob le Moche posted:

You're absolutely right that this is meant as an insult, but do you have any source for the idea that it's coming from Alain Soral's followers? Everything about it to me points to the opposite, that it's coming from the radical anticolonial left who are pissed about Charlie Hebdo's hypocrisy and pseudo-leftism.

EDIT: What's implied is that Charlie Hebdo used to have leftist ideals, but it started going bankrupt until it figured out that taking a rightward turn and focusing on making GBS threads on Muslims was good for profits.

Dedko is a cartoonist for Quenelplus, a Dieudonné website whose affiliation with Soral is evident. The "religions: double standard" title is classic Soralian propaganda about how you just can't joke about Jews.
As for "trahison des idéaux de gauche" part, it's because the soralians, who like to think of themselves as something else than brownshirts, consider that the left has abandoned the defense of the workers and the regulation of the economy (and of the banking system) as a political goal. According to them, socialists and far-left parties have lost their identity and are indistinguishable from the right, except when it comes to the support of gay rights, feminism, and so on, which the soralians hate. (That makes them hilariously wrong when it comes to Charlie, since Bernard Maris' weekly column about the economy easily demonstrates the contrary).

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