Charlie Hebdo had a hearty response to the terrorist downing of KGL9268: “The dangers of low-cost Russian airlines,” “I should have taken Air Cocaine,” “Daesh: Russian aviation intensifies the bombing.” So drôle!
When challenged on Russian condemnations of their humor:
The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Gerard Biard, criticised the Kremlin for “using Charlie Hebdo to create a controversy where none exists, which is the usual manipulation you get from totalitarian regimes”. “This magazine is supposed to be irreverent, and we respect the values of democracy and freedom of expression which the Russian powers that be … do not,” he added.
The French state arrested and charged the creator of the teenaged creator of the parody comic to the right with supporting terrorism. Not a peep about that from Charlie Hebdo.
Of course, as traditional with Western propaganda organs posing as dissident heroes and “pushing the boundaries” types, the concern for free speech is rather strangely limited to just Russia and other bugbears of Western hegemony:
Equal… but some groups were nonetheless plus égaux que d’autres, at least so far as Charlie Hebdo were concerned. In 2009, the cartoonist Siné, a longtime contributor to Charlie Hebdo, joked that Sarkozy’s son, Jean, would “go a long way, that little lad” on rumors that he was planning to convert to Judaism. For any basically normal, non-SJW inclined person, this would be nothing more than a harmless observation on the Jewish talent for economic success (something that is discussed at length by our own Steve Sailer, not to mention by Jews themselves). But for Charlie and the French Establishment, including the “philosopher” Bernard-Henry Lévy, the appropriate response was to fire him and then prosecute him for anti-Semitism (he was acquitted). On another occasion, Charlie started a signature collection campaign to get the Front National banned. Clearly, their own regard for free speech was very far from absolute.
Of course this merely reflects the priorities of the French Republic itself, which proceeded to open dozens of cases on pro-terrorism “hate speech,” including against the comedian Dieudonné for sardonically remarking “Je me sens Charlie Coulibaly” on his Facebook (Coulibaly was one of the CH attackers). All of which Charlie Hebdo evidently did not regard as the “usual manipulation you get from totalitarian regimes.”
Fortunately, Russians don’t take their cues from Charlie Coulibaly, and responded with hilarious cartoons of their own: “Laughter extends life!” “Not in your case Gerard.”
And soon after – and so prophetically – this happened.
Here’s another really amusing cartoon!
This time, Charlie Hebdo’s reaction was decidedly… disappointingly… lackluster.
Terrorism is not the enemy. Terrorism is a mode of operation. Repeating ‘we are at war’ without finding the courage to name our enemies leads nowhere. Our enemies are those that love death. In various guises, they have always existed. History forgets quickly. And Paris tells them to fuck themselves.
That is like so deep man. So courageous. They Who Must Not Be Named are “are those that love death.” It even puts that great Bushism, “they hate us for our freedom” to shame!
And thus I finally started to really understand Dieudonné.
As far as I can tell, Charlie Hebdo just are decadent and obscene leftie trash…I thought their cartoons about the (probable) terror attack on the Russian airliner were disgusting, and they should have been condemned in the West (though to be frank, I wasn’t positively impressed by Russian reactions to the downing of MH17 either). Also pretty pathetic how Western media claimed Russia was protesting because it regarded the cartoons as “blasphemous” (I suppose that was a translation error and Russian statements rather meant something along the lines of “respect for the dead” which Charly Hebdo definitely violated…but the supposed charge of “blasphemy” of course fits with current Western views of Russia as some sort of Orthodox-inspired tyranny).
I’m not sure though whether one should have any sympathy for the likes of Dieudonnee. From what I’ve read, he’s just a stupid black “antiracist” who hates Jews and makes spectacularly tasteless “jokes” (like about Ilan Halimi who was brutally tortured and murdered by savages from the banlieues). I don’t really have a firm grasp of what’s going on in France, but I don’t care at all if people like him get “oppressed” by the French state.
It is really sad to see deterioration of your intellectual output. You are experimenting with too many different categories and producing sub par pastiche in all categories barring one. Scroll to the very last paragraph if you are in no mood to read scathing critique but still want some feedback and advice.
1) This article of Russplaining as you call it, i think Saker does it better. To be fair to you, i accept that multiple variations of such Russian Pov can exist but so far i haven’t really seen something too original in your work that will differentiate from the mainstream Russapologia. Same complaining and whining about freedom of expression, west’s Putin bashing, double standards, invasions etc etc. I get it, they are all legitimate points but Saker does it much better. Your stuff ends up looking too pedantic and whiny. Given the content of your HBD related articles(more detail in #2) it actually downgrades your Russplaining stuff to the lowest bar of Jayman’s social acceptance signaling.
2) You try to do HBD snark but you end up making call outs to Steve Sailer and bylining him. This category of your writings have now devolved from being teen groupie like none sense to full blown prosaic rim jobs. Jayman does it for social acceptance signaling (fellating HBDchick instead of Steve Sailer). Whats your excuse to lowering your faculties to this level? Or are you just a slavic version of Jayman with same low esteem issues? I read the incident you once related about being called tumbleweed and no roots and whatever. You should have called that idiot a d!ckhead to his face and gotten over that episode then instead of turning into a groveling version of Jayman. The mental image i get is of “despicable me” animation movie character gru crying out in Russian accent”why won’t you accept me, why why!”. Well if i am really wrong about your potential and you are really Russian version of Jayman then the only question is which one of you going to post a video of yourself doing a non-white human sacrifice with plea message at the end for acceptance into Sailer’s white nation or whatever whitopia he has imagined.
3) Whats going on with all that NrX reactionary stuff? I try to hear these long winding audios you post and i can never get past the taxonomy bullshit you explain for eternity. Left reactionary is to right of Right reactionary and to the bottom of no reactionary and up the a$$ of this n that reactionary. WTF man. Uncle Karlin did not beat you enough as a kid is all i can say.
Look man, If i need to read unadulterated nativist and tribal perspectives for whites, i read Steve Sailer. I respect that he is quite open about it. It is almost like you are looking at something disgusting but can’t get your eyes off of it. Or like getting addicted to strong smell of wet paint. It is the hunger or appetite of Leontius in Plato’s narration that wants him to look at the pile of dead bodies. Sorry, you are not him.
If i want some serious HBD stuff worth considering then Peter Frost covers it. again, you are not him.
Razib is the very reason i started reading unz and i will stop if he moves to some other site. He complains about muslims, religions, liberals and all that but still manages to do it without sounding petty and on weak ground. He overcompensates on liberals but hey, still worth it and i can easily overlook that. He is complete a-hole in comment section but that is just a very clear sign that he is a serious thinker who stands on his own scientific training and hence doesn’t need to byline others. Can you do that? I think i see a real potential in you for writing stuff that is dispassionate and deep. The reason i first read you was because in your introduction you described yourself as a futurist. I think that is a real original niche for you. I read your article titled “Kic 8462852”. This was great stuff! I am sure there is more where that came from but only if you are willing to pull yourself out of this social acceptance signaling groupie club.
Good luck, i hope to see better from you!
“I should have taken air cocaine”.. What does that even mean? A feeble punchline for an obnoxious attempt at humour.
I have to say, these Muslim immigrants make it very difficult to come up with theoretical justifications for keeping them around..
Fascinating stuff.
Hmm, you might find this interesting
Completely disagree. Karlin is one of the most brilliant people on this Unz review; perhaps, even more brilliant than Steve himself. I couldn’t really stand Jayman due to his propensity for speculation and self-righteousness. He also doesn’t post often. The Saker engages in too much uninformed commentary. The thing about AK is that I never know what to expect from him. This post, for example, came as a complete surprise to me, was not covered by Steve Sailer, and is perfectly on-target in its conclusion.
And Russian “reaction” to MH-17 was….?
I do not understand why the majority of my fellow Americans can’t seem to understand the concept of blowback. Dmitry Orloff mentioned that no one cared about the Russian airline. This got me to thinking that no one changed thier facebook profile picture when the airline went down, it’s even the same colors.
Look man, If i need to read unadulterated nativist and tribal perspectives for whites, i read Steve Sailer. I respect that he is quite open about it. It is almost like you are looking at something disgusting but can’t get your eyes off of it.
You sound like someone who’s recently entered the crimethought zone: “ew, racists… does he think that’s funny? … hmm, if he wasn’t so strident, he’d kind of have a point… why does he have to say it like THAT… some of these guys are smarter than I thought… but they’re self-deluded!” Memories, memories.
Anatoly: keep doing what you’re doing.
Isn’t that so odd?? I thought the same thing myself today. More Russians were killed in the plane bombing. I think it might be due to the extensiveness and location of the crime and not necessarily the body count. The city streets of Paris is a shocker. Terrorism kills a small fraction of the people that vehicle accidents do, but even a rational person like me is a bit uncomfortable in crowded spaces after the Paris attack. On the T in Boston today my anxiety level was pretty high.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyVMiE7jAJo
I can’t decipher which thing you’re more butthurt about: the unearned reputation for speech bravery of Cracked Hebdo staffers (and, he added darkly, their appearance of Judaic cookie-pushing); or the possibly merited reputation of Russian aerospace… Yes yes, plane in this case was an A321 like Lufthansa uses; but as I have a few years on new confident generation of Russian blog citizens my stereotypes run back to when “Aeroflot safety record” was a dependable laugh line, second only to the Serbian car industry (which really did get a bum rap IMO, knowing what went on in UAW plants in Michigan during the 70s and 80s. At least I’m confident the Yugo assembly line workers wasn’t blazing up doobies mid-shift)
[Razib is the very reason i started reading unz and i will stop if he moves to some other site.]
Comment would be superfluous.
I think we all know who exhibits the worst HBD tendency for crashing this plane with no survivors… Korean Air posted 9 hull losses in the last third of the 20th century (though somehow, this was taken up by certified genius Malcolm Gladwell as evidence of why they’re really safe now). But rounding up all the black swans and calculating mental-health-wise I’d be more comfortable ferried by a Wild Turkey-pounding AZN flight potato than an emo German bachelor, the computer’s doing most of the driving anyhow. Jokes over aircraft & train crashes: another thing terrorists have spoilt
Épater la bourgeoisie. It’s fun, it’s easy and it makes you feel cutting edge. Turd on an altar, mooning parliament, jeans and sandals with black tie. Easy, childish. But there are rules: the point is to shock mommy and daddy, not yourself. The more we talk about CH, the more it can charge per issue.
Good points. It also took a few days (or more) for the news to get around that the Russian plane really had been bombed. Initial reports suggested a possible accident.
Don’t pay any attention to the doubters, Anatoly. You’re doing good work here. I’m not knocking Saker–I read him too–but with the MSM the way it is in the west, we can’t have too many Russplainers on the web right now.
As far as Charlie Hebdo is concerned, my French contacts all tell me the same thing: no one is more vocal (and offensive) in attacking Islam and Christianity than CH; but there is this one particular religion that almost never seems to come under any scrutiny by their cartoonists… I’ll let you guess which religion that is!
Agree. I did similar comment at another blog about some problematic bloggers. Though this critism is harsh, it is on target. To be fair, Anatoly Karlin 林安德 is less severe. However this comment comes in time to prevent the slippery slope situation.
I cross post it here for you 林安德. Forgive me if you already read.
For those who put social validation above all (actually majority people are), they would rather say popular things than truthful thing as evidence in most human history. Without social validation, your very own survival is at risk as shown by this documentary. So it is not surprise that very few against democracy in democratic countries, very few against Nazi in nazi germany, very few against communism in communist countries. The lists can go on. Politicians are working hard for social validation (popularity). On the other hand, scientists only care whether objective evidence support their claim regardless of other people’s opinions. Mathematic reasoning only need nature’s approval (or God’s approval) without social validation. Heliocentric idea is confirmed by objective finding through Galileo scope. Eistein’s theory is confirmed by astronomers objective findings, not by popular vote.
It is very concerning that people jumping on global warming wagon might be due to such social validation instead of objective evidence especially for political left who want fit in their mob. So is poltical right for their own agenda. There are also brown nose type bloggers who pretend to be truthful. But their patterns are very much in line of social validation which are more like to use their blogging for personal gain like politicians. The real scientists are more like Darwin or Galileo who only respect objective evidences instead of human’s opinions. Interesting enough, very academic degree often correlate with such objectivity. Majority people with PhD degree in natural science or MDs are able to do such objective thinking process. Physicians make diagnosis based on objective evidences not on others opinion (others opoinon can only serve as reference. Physicians are legally responsible for the outcome. Others opinion will not make a malignant tumor going away). Scientists make discovery based on objecitive evidences. PhD at least need more vigorous process in most respectable institutions.
Master degrees are too easy to get. People with that kind degrees are not objecitve enough to do scientific work. Forgive me if this sounds elitism or prejudice.
The following is the documentary mentioned in comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzxi2dv6TU
And Jayman, if you are reading, you should be able to narrow down who this Wellwisher likely is based on his writing style, preference and knowlage. He is most likely the person you try to kiss ass every day. But he at end is a true scientist who only repects objectivity. Kissing ass will not have real impact on his opinioin.
I think it is OK to write like this post of AK’s, if you are using your own name and thus standing behind what is said. I don’t like anon bloggers on principle, and what I have read of Saker and Jayman is reminiscent of anon commenters.
In May 2015, Robert Ménard said 64.6% of schoolchildren in his town of Béziers were Muslim. He was prosecuted for keeping track of this. No-one actually knows how many Muslims there are in France. The supposedly venerable French secular laws date from the anti Catholic campaigns of the 1900’s, now they are used to persecute secularists. The every increasing anti terror security apparatus will be turned on nationalists. The ISIS attack allegedly produced an anti Muslim reaction but the the highly visible counter reaction to the putative antagonism of the indigenous toward Muslims is ten times larger. Every Jihadist attack produces a counter reaction paroxysm, and outpouring of support for Muslims in the West.
Every attack has and will continue to intensify hatred for nationalism by the mainstream indigenous. I heard a very soft hearted woman and devout Catholic say, in front of her 8 year old daughter, that the marchers were racists stirring up irrational violence and they should be shot or at least beaten up.
It is pretty pathetic. And total bullshit. Charlie Hebdo jokes about death in such a way to demonstrate that its staff has next to no respect for human life. Does one “celebrate life” by drawing cartoons making sport of innocent people’s death?
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
I’d stop short of saying the cartoonists deserved to be gunned down by Muslim fanatics, but I have infinitely more sympathy for the cops who lost their lives protecting the degenerates than for the targets themselves.
BTW, if one really wants to be brave as a cartoonist in the US, try drawing a cartoon ridiculing Martin Luther King Jr. I don’t even know whether there’s an equivalent off-limits religious figure in France. In the US, MLK is Jesus, Muhammed and all the Christian saints and Hebrew prophets put together. It’s our bona-fide state religion, and I’ve never heard a public figure ever speak of him in anything but the most reverent tones.
Air Cocaine is a joke name that refers to an unrelated incident in the Dominican Republic. Two French ex-military pilots were arrested for piloting a plane contaning a massive quantity of cocaine.
Strongly disagree. Saker is nice but he’s a bit crazy. There’s the truther stuff, but not just that. Karlin seems way, way more grounded in general.
I dunno that ‘Russapologia’ is a very big pond, in terms of English language stuff. Additionally he is unapologetically Russophilic, not apologizing for Russia – an even smaller pond.
A Russian version of Jayman sounds freakin’ awesome! I’d ask what your beef with him is, but I’m not that interested. Frankly, you sound like you’ve got a screw loose somewhere, and aren’t particularly familiar with the subjects you criticize Karlin’s approach to.
A harsh takedown, but the “Steve Sailer – Our Lord, the King” link on every post warrants it.
Well, JayMan Jr. is part Latvian…
Thank you for your comments.
That is great and if you think The Saker is better then more power to you, I do not see myself as being in a competition with him. But I don’t think you quite realize that I have been “Russplaining” since I started blogging in January 2008. Your idea that I am doing this as some sort of “social acceptance signalling” is not even wrong.
Believe it or not but some people can appreciate and credit good writers with no sexual/scatalogical motivations involved. As someone whose interest in national differences in IQ and their effects on economic growth can be dated to at least 2008, and who happened to land a column on the website that hosts the biggest name in HBD, what non-nefarious reason could I possibly have for dropping Sailer’s name now and then?
That is exactly why people write about HBD. Social validation. Acceptance. Respectability. Thanks for opening my eyes!
@IC,
Guy who uses “global warming wagon” non-ironically pontificating on scientific objectivity. Dog barks, caravan moves on.
Ah, lol, ok thanks. In a different context that might have been amusing.
I appreciate the fact that you came back to me with a response
Regarding global warming, I am actually open-minded about it. But the speculative future about it is quite uncertain to me. My comment is about those agitators who act on different motivation. These agitators brought bad image to the real scientific process. Science is a process to find truth, open to change and modification. When some people treate it as rigid ideology, they are not helping it.