![]() ![]() There is lots of critique of the left also. There wasn’t a whole lot of, you know, 20- somethings or 30-somethings in that group. Those guys are fairly old, you know, older guys most of them. The thing about Charlie Hebdo is that it started in 1969. The gang of guys that worked for that magazine, they just kept at that for decades. But today, I don’t think there’s anything like that now in the US. Is there anything in the US in our history that comes anywhere near this tradition – the Hebdo tradition? If so, what would it be? He said, “Mad Magazine is to Charlie Hebdo as Taylor Swift is to R. There was a quote yesterday in the New York Observer from a writer who once worked for Charlie Hebdo. And they just don’t want any trouble, and their kids are mostly even more moderate than they are. We have friends here who are from that background, you know, Moroccan or Algerian. Those kinds of extremists are a very small minority. And France has an Arab population that’s like, 5 Million, something like that – huge population of Muslims in this country, most of whom just want to mind their own business and don’t want to be bothered. The right wing here is very down on the Arabs. And the right wing gets like this kind of like fodder for its arguments. I thought, “Jesus Christ, things are really going to turn ugly now.” That kind of thing, just like 9/11, it gives the government the excuse to crack down, to become very much more, like, you know, “Homeland Security” oriented. I had the same reaction I had when 9/11 happened. A crude drawing of an ass that’s labeled “The Hairy Ass of Muhammed.” The cartoon I drew shows me, myself, holding up a cartoon that I’ve just drawn. But then, after they got killed, I just had to draw that cartoon, you know, showing the Prophet. I’m not going to make a career out of baiting some fucking religious fanatics, you know, by insulting their prophet. A lot of French people said, “Yes, it was tasteless, but I defend their right to freedom of speech.” Yeah, it was tasteless, that’s what they say. Charlie Hebdo, it didn’t have a big circulation. They all agreed that they were not going to print those, because they were too insulting to the Prophet. The totalitarian impulse.Īline saw something on the internet…All the big newspapers and magazines in America had all agreed, mutually agreed, not to print those offensive cartoons that were in that Charlie Hebdo magazine. It’s not the faith that is being insulted. Crumb design by designer Stella McCartney on Main London. Robert Crumb and his wife Aline attend a party launching a T-shirt line incorporating an original R. ![]()
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