cognitive dissonance 1/11/15

[kpete]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/11/1m-expected-for-anti-terror-rally-live?CMP=ema_565#block-54b299fee4b0fd6a23617f17

How long would Charlie Hebdo last in the US ? Probably not much longer than five minutes. The voices of outrage would bring the publishers to their knees in no time flat, not to mention the fact that political cartoonists are a diminishing band here. Maybe Mr Obama and the rest of us in the US should be carrying a banner saying "We Are Charlies". Good cartoons will offend because they make us look at ourselves as objects of justified ridicule. Laughter is a powerful weapon. Tis a thin skinned God what can be offended by a mere picture and a delusional human being that thinks it can avenge that offence. My God created Cartoonists and everything else, so it has a sense of humour.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/11/1m-expected-for-anti-terror-rally-live#comment-45996261

[misterhighwasted]

1. Appreciate the rallys held in various Countries today. Can't seem to find any here in the US however

A few Nations missing in Paris I see.
Great link Kpete. Pretty amazing and leaders need to listen to their citizens. Their basic message is pretty clear. Amplified today.

[MrMickeysMom]

2. Agree with that...

The Observer's interview with R Crumb reminded me of why he moved his family to France long ago.

We don't have a Fifth Estate who seek truth and ask questions, we have scribes. Probably with that realization, he recognized the demise of underground comics and left.

The number of political cartoonist is weaning into nothingness...

[Igel]

3. It's true, Charlie probably wouldn't last long here.

They offend everybody. But there groups and things you can be offensive about in America with little pain and misery and things you can't be offensive about.

Abortion protesters/right-to-life people? Be offensive. Some newspapers publish them.

White supremacists? Go for it.

White trash? Sure.

Duggars? Absolutely.

Mormons? Let's talk about that possibility after a nice musical as we have coffee.

Bush I? Think Doonesbury and the absent Bush or the "vision thing". Not a problem.

Bush II had a lot of pictures of a Bush-chimp.

Jesus? Any Bible figure? Not a prob. Routinely done.

Many media outlets chortled with glee when these things provoked outcry and outrage.

There are small publications that we prefer not to exist that publish caricatures and stereotypes that we think demean people. Sometimes they aren't intended to but the interpretation is that they *do* and therefore *were* intended to. We typically think of those publications as worthy of being shut by any means possible.

[brooklynite]

4. HUSTLER and SCREW Magazine

Not as politically focused, but they printed for decades