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Check out this awesome satire y'all: http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff513/CharlieHBryan/CharlieHebdoCover_zps22fa07dd.jpg - Amith On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:07 PM, andrew coates via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Lettre aux escrocs de l’islamophobie qui font le jeu des racists. Charb. > Les Échappés. 2015. > The Weekly, as the Socialist Workers Party template set out, was known for > its “provocative and racist attacks on Islam”. Norman Finkelstein tried to > create an industry out of this holocaust. He declared that the paper was > not satire but “sadism” and compared it to the anti-Semitic Nazi Der > Stürmer. An apparently anti-racist alliance, Unite Against Fascism(UAF), > held a special session at their AGM on why “je ne suis pas Charlie.”This > hostility has not died down. > ‘Rules’ for satirists appeared – which Charlie had apparently broken. It > should have targeted the “powerful.” Will Self judged that satire ought to > “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted”. Literary critics, > enforcing these new Aristotlean unities of satirical style – breached no > doubt by Rabelais, Hogath’s drawings, and the plebeian Viz comic, not to > mention early Soviet anti-religious propaganda – have tried to establish > their decree. (1) We could call it ‘satirical realism’. Even cartoonists > joined the would-be Zhdanovs of correct caricature. As have authors. > Charb, supporter of the Front de Gauche and the Parti Communiste Français, > was editor of Charlie Hebdo since 2009, after the rightward moving Phillipe > Val had departed for France-Inter (with President Sarkozy’s blessing). His > Lettre – a 92-page pamphlet – looks at political and social context to the > word, Islamophobia (Islamophobie – identical to the English one, in > meaning, if not in use): the most important of the, many, charges against > Charlie. He explores its ambiguities, and the false politics that it is > embedded in. If he is polemical, then the booklet is a polemic. If it is > heartfelt, we can appreciate the emotion all too well today. > > https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/lettre-aux-escrocs-de-lislamophobie-qui-font-le-jeu-des-racists-charb-review-article/ > Andrew Coates > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
