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"Charlie Hebdo is also a crap publication and people need to stop celebrating it..."
When the only thing you’re reverent of is irreverence, you eventually get chan culture—people who shout racial slurs and think they’ve accomplished something in the name of 'free speech.'
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  • Rocco Filardi The Dailey Beast has no credence to call another media outlet crap especially when we see the total garbage that is revealed here daily.
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  • Jason Gardner Even if this shitty article were satirical, it wouldn't be as funny as Charlie Hebdo. And the writer here pathetically disregards the fact that they *are* martyrs, because they died for the very ideal that makes even this shitty article possible -- freedom of speech.
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  • Nora Gant Widener Love how the victim gets trashed in order to shut down conversation.
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  • Katherine Richmond Get off your high horse, Daily Beast. I just read this article after reading your interview of the intersex woman who's making porn to tell her "love story" with Michael Phelps. Real cutting edge journalism there.
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  • Rosemary Welsh People aren't celebrating the magazine, they're celebrating the free society that allowed it to be published.
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  • Debbie Andress Hebdo attacks religions and religions are not races. Your entire premise is incorrect. Maybe it's time for you to find another career.
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  • Cliff Pinto No, Arthur Chu, you moron. No one "needs" to do anything. If you don't want to celebrate Charlie Hebdo and kiss jihadi butt, you are FREE to do so. But don't you fucking go around dictating what others should or shouldn't do.
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  • Nate Thomas A lot of what passes through The Daily Beast is crap, too, but I wouldn't recommend a maniacal, fanatical, raging massacre as an appropriate response to the tripe that is produced. The freedom of expression comes with a license to offend. There are no rights to protect one from being offended. That's just called being mature.
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  • Felipe Brando Cadavid Im sick of articles trying to stigmatise the magazine. No it does not need to stop. It should continue
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  • Kjartan Øygarden That's right, you're not Charlie. It takes some guts to be Charlie and you don't have any. Have read The Beast occasionally, but this ends now.
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  • Eric Roizman That "crap publication" has/had more cojones and courage than The Daily Beast will know in 1000 of its insipid, politically correct lifetimes.
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  • Tambi Lewis Kind of missing the point here!! It doesn't matter what some people's opinion of the publication is. If it's not your cup of tea than don't read it!! That's you're right! The point that no matter the content it should not be censored for any reason! FREEDOM OF SPEECH is the point! And not backing down in the face of fear!
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  • Aman Chadha If the mainstream press starts shaming the victim for getting killed, the terrorists have won. Next time a woman is raped, side with the rapist and shame the woman. Impeccable logic.
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  • Jurgen Ceder The author seems to miss the point completely. We don't admire the people of Charlie Hebdo because of their good taste, good sense of humour or lack of it. We admire the courage they had to continue to do what they felt was funny and relevant, even when their lives were already clearly under threat because of it. We don't have to admire their cartoons, opinions or irreverence to admire their courage in the face of extreme intolerance.
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  • Tom Southworth The amount of times I've seen English- speaking journalists misinterpret Charlie Hebdo's work is unbelievable.

    The cartoon with the sex slaves wasn't 'poking fun' at them - it was an attack on the far-right in France and their attitude towards immigra    nts who claim benefits. Too many people are criticising their cartoons whilst viewing them absolutely devoid of context.

    http://www.quora.com/What-was-the-context-of-Charlie...
    After the terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped and enslaved Nigerian girls for sexual slavery, french satire magazine Charlie Hedbo had this as their cover: Which depicts pregnant girls demanding welfare payments. What was the context though? It'd be great if a French person who's read that arti...
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  • Jakub Kuzminski There you go, all the idiotic articles are almost writing themselves. They were also braver then you will ever be- mr. nobody who wrote this crap.
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  • Albert La Pérouse lol the guy probably read like 5 covers and thinks he knows ...
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  • Jules DeeKay I am deeply pissed-off about that article and feel even worse as I am French. Comparing Charlie Hebdo to South Park is an insult... How can you possibly compare a political and whistleblower media to some rude entertainment ?? Yes they troll christians, jewish, muslims, politics, rednecks or wealth. So what ? They constantly display facts on our how our society can sometimes be absurd and therefore call for humanism, a common cause for all of us. When America was dreadfuly attacked on 9/11, we didn't trolled you in France. Please show some respect for the victims and France. STOP FRENCH BASHING !!!
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    • Candice Baker Leit Jules unfortunately South Park's anarchic humor is probably the closest American equivalent. The writers of South Park developed the musical, "Book of Mormon" which is a similar send up of organized religion and colliding cultures.
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  • Mark Sciberras Nobody is celebrating Charlie Hebdo, a publication that had a print run of only 60,000, by saying 'Je suis Charlie'. What they are celebrating is freedom of expression, including the freedom to say and write anything short of incitement to violence.
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  • Jens Christensen So.. we shouldn't have criticised Hitler, because he represented the viewpoints of the unemployed and poor in Germany? And the British were right to refrain from the same because Germany had been treated badly, and was disenfranchised and unfairly treated?
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    • Isabella Pighi Jens, I am glad you mention it, satire is the first media that gets shutdown during dictatorship.. Whoever says these poor cartoonists deserve it implicitly approve centuries of repression .. As a European which country got mauled by fascism I shiver thinking that people who had born in free countries might even consider it. I don't care who did it, it just just fundamentally wrong. I applaud you for this comment x
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  • Mark Monson No reason to kill the man...but there comes a time when you have to say to yourself...will I offend someone....just for a damn laugh...freedom of speech or not....common sense and decency should over rule.....JMO
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  • Mohamed Masrawy i'm muslim . totally against those terrorists but at the same time , je ne sais pas charlie , i can't stand by people have mocked my faith
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  • Thom Gray Three of your top stories right now are Michael Phelps' transsexual girlfriend, a porn novel about Rob Gronkowski, and "Wii Fit for your vagina."

    Who is a crap publication again?
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  • Paul Stone Disgraceful. One day out, the bodies are not even buried, and now this.
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  • Fernanda Ambrosano Rite Did anyone here read the article?? Doesn't seem like it.......
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  • Francois Agier The dailybeast is being an attentionwhore right now, that doesn't have a songle clue what he's talking about. Which is really sad. You're the crap publication.
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  • Paul Warrender Absolutely right on! I for one do not feel bad for "equal opportunity offenders" when it comes to their "free speech" rights, nor do I feel for them when it comes to their own safety. You're either part of the problem, or part of the solution.
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  • Shaun Croc The guy writing this article is entitled to his freedom of speech.people mocking it on here is kind of ironic.
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  • Bɛnjāmīn Altius Fortius Somethings you don't have to like or hate, u just have to understand; if we all have to kill for something we don't like, then no human will survive.
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  • Cathie Howell Thomas Charlie Hebdo cartoons are satirical and ironic. Americans do mostly struggle with irony. The "Je suis Charlie' refers to freedom of speech in the media, a complex discussion. Not whether you like the publication.
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  • Martine Aerts-Niddam What the f?????? Charlie H went where no one dared and often told the necessary truth

    The daily beast on the other hand is often a heap of utter nonsense

    I am
    Done with you

    YOU have no balls!
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  • Rick Satenstein So, some disturbed jihadis murder journalists, police officers and supermarket shoppers over CARTOONS, and the _cartoons_ are the problem?

    The problem is the mindset of brutality and absolutism, sadly still rampant in many parts of our world. This ba    ckward mentality doesn't know dialog or self-critique. So we must help it evolve. We must desensitize their adherents and foster a spirit of introspection and contemplation of alternative viewpoints.

    I say bring on the offensive cartoons. By the thousands.

    Charlie Hebdo's jabs were by no means limited to radical Islam. So I think these murders say a lot about more about certain radical groups than they do about the editorial process.
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  • Gregg Rosenberg Kind of like the daily beast
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  • Shania L Turnage You might not agree with the magazine but no One deserves to die for a cartoon.
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  • Ana Díaz Ludwig Its thanks to people like Charb and Cabu, whose predescesors in the 60's defied the establishment and created provoking satirical magazine, that people like you Mr. Chu,can write utter nonsense & still think of yourself as a highly regarded journalist. Its called freedom of speech & freedom of choice. #JeSuisCharlie
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  • Matt Judge Hebdo can be as bad a media outlet as it wants. I may not like what they say but I will defend their right to say it.
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  • Chris Gadarowski So what if it's a crap publication??? Free speech means supporting the right for people to publish crap! Heck! I've read *numerous* articles published by The Daily Beast that I considered crap!
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  • Angela Sippel Haissig Amen! That would be a pot calling a kettle black to call another publication 'crap'. Question is are you ready to die for your paper? These people were which takes up their credibility quite a few notches in my book. Apparently you are not ready to die, which explains why you are kowtowing to Islam when normally you have nothing good to say about most varieties.
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  • Michael Daum The author criticizes Charlie Hebdo for lack of nuance and writes an article which lacks nuance and uses devices criticized in his own article(he mentions the inappropriateness of mocking DeGaulle so soon after his death and apparently doesn't see the parallel in his timing). There is a lot to discuss here but I'll sum up my opinion by suggesting he failed to "punch up" in this piece.
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  • Chris Hayslett Charlie Hebdo is as sacred as any religion since all of it is made up.

    Christian martyrs.
    Muslim martyrs.
    Charlie Hebdo martyrs.
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  • émilie Cavaillero It shows that you totally don't understand what was Charlie Hebdo and beyond that the "je suis charlie" movement that is even beyond the defence of the newspaper but the defence of the freedom of speech. Please next time use your brain or just shut up
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  • Marion Champagne Rincedoigt Connard. Faquin. Salopard. Mange-merde. Allez vous faire foutre le Daily Beast !See Translation
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  • Jérôme Bessard Miserable journalism. Have a 1/100 of principles and guts that charlie had and come back.
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  • Taco Kemna that's a pretty long essay to proclaim that it's not your kind of humour. it's not mine either. sure, I love absurdity and sarcasm, but your faith must be pretty weak if you think it justifies killing people.

    They managed to do the reverse, everyone is Charlie now. Good thing they didn't go for the average poo and pee comedians then, we'd be knee deep in shit and enjoying it
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  • Steve Stay Spacey Fucking dont talk shit about people and you won't be touched is a universal rule.
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  • Okka Oo Charlie's cartoons are much better and a lot more philosophical than this boring article! I give my unconditionl support for Charlie.
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  • Dante Cabanas Here's the point to the article: That in our haste and passion to defend free speech, that we guard against placing Charlie Hebdo on a pedestal. That's all Chu is saying. Perhaps Chu goes overboard in vilifying the magazine for its lack of taste and moral integrity, but he does understand the importance of free speech. So many of you are relying on the stock phrase "blaming the victim" when Chu does not do that at all. So many of you are attacking the Daily Beast, the entire publication, while Chu's article is the focus of your attention. I agree with the minority here: Few of you even read the article.
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  • Steven Smith Great article. I agree with the author. The fact that Charlie Hebdo was the target of terrorism does not mean that it is a good magazine .

    Hebdo is a trashy magazine. Great article
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  • Andy Walling Beast you're wacked
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  • Travis Shackelford I'm done. Unfollowing TDB (and it's been a long time coming). How did this click bate garbage piece work out for you?
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