Title : Charlie Hebdo appropriates the death of George Floyd to mock Meghan Markle and the Queen.
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Charlie Hebdo appropriates the death of George Floyd to mock Meghan Markle and the Queen.
Via The Sun:
1. The headline translates to "Why Meghan left Buckingham...." and the speech bubble says "because I couldn't breathe anymore."
2. Now, for the first time, I'm thinking about whether the Queen shaves her legs.
3. Is the image outrageous? But Charlie Hebdo wants to be outrageous... so it is immune to any criticism people might choose to lob. Still, the question remains: How outrageous is it and what are the elements of outrageousness?
4. The most outrageous part — if I consult my own sensitivity — is the appropriation of the pain surrounding George Floyd for a comical presentation. The second most outrageous part is connecting Markle to Floyd because she is black.
5. Those outrageous things are not, however, purely gratuitous, so it's not just a case of laughing at George Floyd and finding it worth pointing out that Markle, too, is black. What's not gratuitous is the radical contrast between what happened to Floyd — suffering and death on street, under the knee of a cop — and what happened to Markle — palace life insufficiently pleasant.
6. It's important that Charlie Hebdo avoided using stereotypical features in drawing Markle, but unfortunate that the drawing doesn't look much like her. I'm interested in the window pane image on Markle's cheek. I believe this is the classic cartoon way to signify shininess. I guess Markle indulges in the makeup convention of dabbing shiny highlighter on the cheekbones. It would be a real stretch to connect that to the racial slur "shine." The slur has to do with the occupation of shining shoes — though Markle's face is right next to the Queen's shiny shoe — and not to some notion about how black people look.
7. It's important to be able to make fun of public figures. Markle is actively using accusations of racism to fend off criticism. This might work, for her and for many others, if the fear of these accusations is too intense. In that light, Charlie Hebdo is doing us a service, taking the heat, and — if you think about it the right way — contributing to racial progress.
Thus articles Charlie Hebdo appropriates the death of George Floyd to mock Meghan Markle and the Queen.
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