Double Standards of France - Hara-Kiri Hebdo vs Charlie Hebdo

[gambit]

I feel sad when highly educated and critical minds make such false statements. We find Arab jews, we find European Jews, we find African Jews, we find Iranian Jews, we find Indian Jews; Jews, just like Muslims are found among various races/ethnicities. How come Jews are one race?

Am shocked...Where is the obligatory comment about my origin ?

Anyway...There is nothing 'false' about what I said. The dominant context of anti-semitism is racial. It does not matter if there are African Jews or any Jew from any other racial/ethnic group. The US is an immigrant country but that does not discourage people from calling any American 'Yank' regardless of the racial/ethnic origin of that American when the word 'Yank' was originally intended to be assigned to Americans of European origins.

 

[syedali73]

Anyway...There is nothing 'false' about what I said. The dominant context of anti-semitism is racial. It does not matter if there are African Jews or any Jew from any other racial/ethnic group. The US is an immigrant country but that does not discourage people from calling any American 'Yank' regardless of the racial/ethnic origin of that American when the word 'Yank' was originally intended to be assigned to Americans of European origins.

You are wrong and you know you are wrong. The definition of race is not what you are telling me here. Jews are multi racial so are Christians, and Muslims, and followers of other faiths. Jews cant be awarded a special status nor the definitions of 'race' and 'ethnicity' could be re-invented to appease their fallacy.

I take back my earlier sentence. You neither appear to be highly educated nor critical but just a bigot.

 

[Faiez]

Yeah except that Hara Kiri Hebdo incident happened in 1969, and Charlie Hebdo in 2014, close to half a century after. People evolve, societies evolve, their tolerance evolves. But some people and societies would rather be stuck in the stone age.

The publisher didn't get killed for printing what ever, the issue was resolved in a civilized way by France in 1969.
So you can't even compare the two events.

Hara-Kiri Hebdo was a weekly satirical magazine began to publish in 1969. It is a lesser known fact that Hara-Kiri Hebdo was the forbearer of Charlie Hebdo, which started to publish following a permanent and life-long ban on Hara-Kiri Hebdo in 1970.

In November 1970, following the death of the President of France Charles de Gaulle in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, the weekly Hara-Kiri Hebdo published the headline "Bal tragique à Colombey : 1 mort" (in English: "Tragic ball in Colombey: 1 death").

The choice of the heading denotes to a tragedy of the same month, a fire at a discothèque that had claimed 146 lives. The chosen heading was conceived as derogatory, a cheap attempt of downplaying the gravity of Charles de Gaulle's tragic death, by suggesting a comparison with a tragedy which had just earlier claimed many lives. The people and government of France took this editorial choice as a deliberate felony of lèse-majesté against the deceased President. As a result, the Hara-Kiri Hebdo was immediately and permanently banned. Charlie Hebdo was started immediately afterwards.

My question is, where was the freedom of press and free speech when Hara-Kiri Hebdo was permanently banned?

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Good that you're pointing out that there are double standards amongst the French regarding freedom of speech/expression. But you use your arguments to justify the creation of more restrictions on freedom to "protect Islamic values" etc. instead of calling for more freedom of speech/expression across the board.

 

[RescueRanger]

Whatever the liberals say. There are and always will be limits to freedom of speech in one way or another.

 

[PakArmyFTW]

So it begins....

Perumal Murugan's novel Madhorubhagan (English version 'One Part Woman') was banned in India in, not 50 years ago, not even 10 years ago, but, well in 2015. Why was it banned? Right-wing Hindus alleged that Murugan had portrayed the Kailasanathar temple in Tiruchengode and its women devotees in bad light. ....people and societies would rather be stuck in the stone age...

 

[Menace2Society]

Charlie Hebdo is a byproduct of this filthy racist French society which feels it has the right to look down on anything ethnic.

Freedom means freedom from humiliation not your backwards concept of selective racism.

 

[Musalman]

I wonder why people asking about the double standard. Don't you understand why there is a double standard?????

 

[Cheetah786]

Why is that unusual ?


Anti-semitism is racial. Being a Muslim is not being a member of a racial/ethnic group. I can convert to Christianity but cannot convert to being a black man, no matter how much I want.

Judaism is ethnicity , Oh Man this is priceless