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MattSh

(3,714 posts) Sat Jan 10, 2015, 05:28 AM Jan 2015

Tom Tomorrow on Charlie Hebdo

https://medium.com/the-nib/charlie-hebdo-let-the-hot-takes-begin-4d20a5879e8a

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Tom Tomorrow on Charlie Hebdo (Original Post) MattSh Jan 2015 OP

"Sure, massacres are bad -- but weren't they kind of asking for it?" LAGC Jan 2015 #1

Brilliant. Love it. Pooka Fey Jan 2015 #2

Tom is the best. Bluenorthwest Jan 2015 #3

Careful, Tom. That's gun culture's Muhammed you drew in the lower left frame. onehandle Jan 2015 #4

K&R! Octafish Jan 2015 #5

LAGC

(5,330 posts)

1. "Sure, massacres are bad -- but weren't they kind of asking for it?"

Reply to MattSh (Original post)

Sat Jan 10, 2015, 07:27 AM

Jan 2015

Shit, we don't need any talking heads to hear that.

Just listen to some of the victim-blaming posts right here on DU.

Pooka Fey

(3,496 posts)

2. Brilliant. Love it.

Reply to MattSh (Original post)

Sat Jan 10, 2015, 08:52 AM

Jan 2015

I was starting to worry (more than usual) about Americans, seeing the victim blaming that has been trotted out in the aftermath of these attacks.

This cartoon made me chuckle after an atrocity, after another bloody terrorist attack, and now I feel just a tiny bit less sad. Talk about the power of the pen...