• LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      The wikipedia article is a trip…

      Charlie Hebdo (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁli ɛbdo]; meaning Charlie Weekly) is a French satirical weekly magazine,[4] featuring cartoons,[5] reports, polemics, and jokes. The publication has been described as anti-racist,[6] sceptical,[7] secular, libertarian[8] and within the tradition of left-wing radicalism,[9][10] publishing articles about the far-right (especially the French nationalist National Front party),[11] religion (Catholicism, Islam and Judaism), politics and culture.

      Then the controversies section lists multiple times where they drew Mohammed making the same racist joke jfc

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        French anti-religious culture is just implemented in the stupidest, meanest way imaginable. Jumping up and down screaming slurs at marginalized colonial subjects until someone throws a punch, then screaming and holding up their booboo so everyone can see how unreasonable the other is.