1. The headline translates to "Why Meghan left Buckingham...." and the speech bubble says "because I couldn't breathe anymore."
2. Now, for the first time, I'm thinking about whether the Queen shaves her legs.
3. Is the image outrageous? But Charlie Hebdo wants to be outrageous... so it is immune to any criticism people might choose to lob. Still, the question remains: How outrageous is it and what are the elements of outrageousness?
4. The most outrageous part — if I consult my own sensitivity — is the appropriation of the pain surrounding George Floyd for a comical presentation. The second most outrageous part is connecting Markle to Floyd because she is black.
5. Those outrageous things are not, however, purely gratuitous, so it's not just a case of laughing at George Floyd and finding it worth pointing out that Markle, too, is black. What's not gratuitous is the radical contrast between what happened to Floyd — suffering and death on the street, under the knee of a cop — and what happened to Markle — palace life insufficiently pleasant.
6. It's important that Charlie Hebdo avoided using stereotypical features in drawing Markle, but unfortunate that the drawing doesn't look much like her. I'm interested in the window pane image on Markle's cheek. I believe this is the classic cartoon way to signify shininess. I guess Markle indulges in the makeup convention of dabbing shiny highlighter on the cheekbones. It would be a real stretch to connect that to the racial slur "shine." The slur has to do with the occupation of shining shoes — though Markle's face is right next to the Queen's shiny shoe — and not to some notion about how black people look.
7. It's important to be able to make fun of public figures. Markle is actively using accusations of racism to fend off criticism. This might work, for her and for many others, if the fear of these accusations is too intense. In that light, Charlie Hebdo is doing us a service, taking the heat, and — if you think about it the right way — contributing to racial progress.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 232 of 232St. Floyd was paying local businesses with fake $20 bills. Can't we do the same and pay off the extortionists (AKA "peaceful protesters")? Fire up the presses.
Next, to really cement the George Floyd analogy, they could have the Queen pointing a gun at the pregnant Markle's belly.
Kneel, or the "burden" gets aborted, cannibalized, sequestered, and you socially progress. Choice (pun intended).
https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/Culture/betterdeadthanrude.html
This made me think of something you said, Crack.
The subject matter is different, the people seem the same.
Republicans w/out balls
Greg The Class Traitor said...
"here's your reality check"
You're talkin g to a guy who grew up with three cops, but thi9nk you need to give me a reality check? Can you give me a reality check? How? Do you have three friends who grew up to be cops? Did you grow up black in America - knowing three guys who grew up to be cops?
Fuck off, idiot.
Michelle Dulak Thomson said...
":No, Crack, We were talking about this specific cover -- you know, the one Ann put up for us to discuss -- so it isn't "this one example," it's the whole point of the discussion."
But Michelle - my dear Karen who seems to have popped up out of nowhere to make it her deal to control me - I lived in France and know the magazine the cover appears on well, so happen to have spoken on it, too, which his alright when Karens aren't around to disallow blacks the right to speak colloquially, as whites do here, when I'm just lurking.
Now unbunch your panties, and get away from me.
Oso Negro said...
"The only thing that runs as a theme through his efforts is that "white people just don't get it". Hell, what if he's right? Maybe we don't."
It's not like anyone can seriously claim I'm wrong - just they prefer to see it differently - like NewAgers do:
I see Bill Clinton killing Ricky Ray Rector, and attacking Sista Soulja, and saying Obama should've been serving him coffee, while following rape-y gurus - and getting away with four rapes as white guys want to harass blacks over "woke" instead of putting that energy into bringing down the Clintons, a major source of power for those pushing the extremes of the "woke" argument, for instance - and think those white people are misguided as Hell (and kinda racist, too, if you think about it, because I get caught up in their hatred as well and I'm not part of it).
doctrev said...
"If you're so down with the hood, why do you loiter around the whitest of whitebread lawyers and her Republican commentariat?"
This is about the dumbest question yet - I got friends here, y'know? I was once a Republican, too. Ann's not always as white as she makes out, and I genuinely like Meade. I think of him often.
We don't have to agree on everything - a lesson idiots like you need to learn.
doctrev said...
"It's quite possible. Just as whites find it increasingly difficult to understand black resentment in the face of overwhelming black cultural dominance."
That sentence screams of historical ignorance. It screams that blacks maybe should stay at the bottom where whites put us, or that blacks should've endured our lower status with good cheer as whites abused us, both, when we were down and as we've risen. Look at Rap - biggest thing America's created culturally in decades and what did whites greet it with? "IT'S NOT MUSIC!!!" But you "find it increasingly difficult to understand black resentment in the face of overwhelming black cultural dominance."?
You lie - and THAT pisses us off as well.
"It's the kind of mix that usually leads to large-scale violence on behalf of one faction or more."
Yeah, somehow, white people always end up at that conclusion in this country.
Rosalyn C. said...
"I must have missed that cogent argument."
You guys don't do what Andrew Breitbart told you to do - you do the opposite as you lose - so that doesn't surprise me.
"I didn't realize that all the links to Crack's site, and only Crack's site, are part of a logical and rational argument, and not merely an expression of his personal beliefs and his desire to be heard."
You not realizing things should be a hint that the problem is YOU: my site is a repository of links to other sites that fill in and support an argument I've been done outlining over there, and here, years ago. If you guys are too dumb to get it, I'm NOT going to keep repeating it for morons. The fact you're being handed political defeat (without Trump) is good enough for my argument to hold up - because it's always included your political defeat.
What I've noticed is his constant suggestion that he represents all "Blacks" in their shared opinions, and that all "Whites" in the US have a shared opinion, has not been persuasive.
But please do try to make your argument whatever it is. I do agree that racism is real and that Whites have very little comprehension of the effects of that on Blacks. Is that the point you've tried to make here? And your belief that the solution to all that is financial reparations?
Crack, you’re destitute and psychotic.
Maybe you should focus on that, instead of your role as the Big Man King of Wakanda.
"What I've noticed is his constant suggestion that he represents all "Blacks" in their shared opinions, and that all "Whites" in the US have a shared opinion, has not been persuasive. "
You did not notice that - it's another thing you misinterpreted but didn't consider as your problem.
"But please do try to make your argument whatever it is."
Nope - you're a hostile moron and I have a blog you can read without being a pain in the ass to me - enjoy.
"I do agree that racism is real and that Whites have very little comprehension of the effects of that on Blacks."
You just can't find any racists (mirrors help in this regard) and feel YOU must deny every expression of that sentiment blacks talk about and replace them with your own white outlook. Just because.
"Is that the point you've tried to make here?"
Here's the link to the blog's first page. The Macho Response is now 13 years old, so you've got some catching up to do on that argument.
"And your belief that the solution to all that is financial reparations?"
You are dumb as a rock. A crack rock, at that.
Narr said...
"You want us to go to your site, but after the hostility you display here why would we?"
Because you should be smart enough to know people come in all types and not all of them wanna hold your hand forever. Especially angry blacks, watching you ignore the nation coming apart, because you decided Andrew Brietbart dying was the fatal flaw in his argument.
farmgirl said...
"This made me think of something you said, Crack."
""Ordinary Americans aren't going to die for political correctness." Oh, yes we are, Ma'am — gladly, willingly! We far prefer an agonizing death to the possibility we might give offense to the differently religioned."
NewAge is the "differently religioned" nobody saw coming.
You have your own blog, Crack.
Take your ranting over there.
Althouse is too nice, and too ridden with white guilt to tell you to buzz off, but you’re just putting your mental illness on display here.
Nobody’s reading your shit here. I’m not either. You’re talking to the voices in your head.
Talk to a therapist.
Someone should tell ST to give up:
We're done.
Get some help, Crack.
You’re going thru a psychotic manic episode for some reason.
This is not the place for it.
"Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose while being restrained according to the book."
AA: What do you mean "according to the book"? That's not what the coroner's report says.
The police procedures book says it was by the book (scroll down); the autopsy says that St. Floyd did not show any injuries caused by the police.
When will we stop pretending that Markle is black? It is clear to anyone with functioning eyeballs that she is mostly white, probably about 3/4.
This cartoon provides a great example of how Markle wants us to view her plight with the Royal Family. This illustrates perfectly how she says she feels. I’m guessing she’s he embarrassed it’s portrayed like this but it’s exactly as she described it.
What she’s missed is that even though she was “married,” what really happened is that she applied for and got a job. And it’s a job that comes with a lot privilege and a lot of duty - but it doesn’t come with an ounce of personal freedom. Oh, and the job is for life.
Tom said...
This cartoon provides a great example of how Markle wants us to view her plight with the Royal Family.
I'ma say it again: I get the joke, but using George Floyd was not only in bad taste (which I personally could give a shit about) but - in typical Charlie Hebdo fashion - sends the wrong message to blacks and arabs, who ARE oppressed in France, so who are more likely to not give a shit about the message, after that. Basically pushing them into Meghan Markle's arms.
Hell, you guys have practically have got me appearing to side with her, and I can't stand her.
The Crack Emcee said...
Greg The Class Traitor said...
"here's your reality check"
You're talkin g to a guy who grew up with three cops, but thi9nk you need to give me a reality check?
Since you didn't respond to any part of my reality check, it's obvious you need it.
It's also obvious you're going to ignore it, because you don't care about reality.
" If you guys are too dumb to get it, I'm NOT going to keep repeating it for morons."
Really? When repetition is the substance of the vast majority of your posts? You are putting the one-trick-pony out to pasture?
Good for you. I look forward to you keeping true to this statement.
Greg The Class Traitor said...
It's also obvious you're going to ignore it, because you don't care about reality.
I ignore anyone who thinks they can tell a guy with three friends who are cops anything about policing. You're a moron.
JAORE said...
" If you guys are too dumb to get it, I'm NOT going to keep repeating it for morons."
Really? When repetition is the substance of the vast majority of your posts?
It's not repetition - there's nothing else to discuss. That doesn't stop idiots from talking about other things, though, as Rome burns.
"You are putting the one-trick-pony out to pasture?"
And you are the guy pretending a nation that lets a rapist like Bill Clinton walk freely is paradise, so who's drank the Kool-Aid?
"Good for you. I look forward to you keeping true to this statement."
None of you can read well enough to keep anyone to anything.
I do know that people come in all types, Crack.
All I know about Breitbart is what gets bandied about here; I didn't decide anything about his ideas or his death, and why should I?
Narr
People come in all types
"Pretending a nation that lets a rapist like Bill Clinton walk free is paradise," says Crack.
Huh, I never considered this place paradise; powerful men often get away with stuff (that's one reason they seek power), and what's it to you if a Clinton dicked a bunch of white trash?
Narr
Jealousy is such an ugly emotion
Narr said...
We let powerful men often get away with stuff - and then attack blacks for shit instead.
FIFY
Narr said...
We let powerful men often get away with stuff - especially after their wives set "Russian Collusion" hoaxes in motion that ruin our political reality and even bring slavery back to Libya and then Bill gets asked to vouch for Biden's integrity at the last DNC - because we can always amuse ourselves by attacking blacks for almost anything.
FIFY
Bill Clinton is a rapist, one of Hillary's best friends is a murderer, and Oprah's promoted both rapists and murderers, but the Republicans just can't figure out a good angle to attack them from, and thus, lets them claim the high road.
Completely understandable as you attack blacks daily over being woke.
Narr said...
Jealousy is such an ugly emotion
I haven't mentioned being jealous of anyone even once. If wanting rationality and justice is that, then you got me.
You are confusing me with someone else, Crack.
First, IANAR, and what they do or don't do is up to them.
And B, I haven't attacked blacks daily over being woke. I've said repeatedly in my 22 months (time flies when I'm having fun) here that as a historical matter B/black people have been treated like shit in this country, and I FULLY understand human emotions like resentment and desire for comeuppance on the part of many African-Americans. Nor do I deny that many if not most W/whites don't much care, and that may well end up in disaster.
(I do hold that W/white Wokesters are a detestable breed.)
The jealously remark was smartassery--jealous of some other guy getting so much pussy?
Envy might have been more apt--envy of some other guy getting away with so much?
But you still imagine that 'we' (Whites? Republicans? Althouse commenters? Retired Librarians?) have some lever of power to undo what has happened to this country.
You've said yourself that the young are on your side.
Narr
So Don't Worry, Be Happy
doctrev said...
That sentence screams of historical ignorance. It screams that blacks maybe should stay at the bottom where whites put us, or that blacks should've endured our lower status with good cheer as whites abused us, both, when we were down and as we've risen. Look at Rap - biggest thing America's created culturally in decades and what did whites greet it with? "IT'S NOT MUSIC!!!" But you "find it increasingly difficult to understand black resentment in the face of overwhelming black cultural dominance."?
You lie - and THAT pisses us off as well.
3/15/21, 6:06 AM
Goodness knows that rap is so far in the mainstream that you have white rappers, but that's a hundred miles away from the point. Country music is overwhelmingly popular with whites, but things that deplorable whites like are relentlessly pushed out of the media zeitgeist while styles like rap are relentlessly celebrated. That is, by everyone but the actual population. I'm not going to stand in the way of you celebrating rap all you like- it's actually educational that you need white approval this much. Particularly when you understand why whites regard some of your subgenres with open contempt and disgust.
For instance, you'll be surprised why whites are MORE openly dismissive and insulting, even after the Grammys honor "I Can't Breathe" with Song of the Year. They're not our culture. And neither are you.
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