Charlie Hebdo’s ‘Racist’ Cartoon

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Have you seen it? It shows the Queen kneeling on Markle’s neck. Poor taste, but racist? What is the racist bit? The Queen being white in a position of power over a helpless black? Racist? Against whom? Or is it the fact that Markle is shown as brown? Is it racist to show that?

Answers on a fucking postcard to:

Whoever is outraged this week.
The guardian/independent/standard
Wokedom on Thames
London (of course)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/15/charlie-hebdo-meghan-queen/
(Link provided by the dashing Night Admin – NA)

Nominated by: Cuntstable Cuntbubble

65 thoughts on “Charlie Hebdo’s ‘Racist’ Cartoon”

  1. My French is shocking; I got an A in “O-level” in 1982 and that was it. I have not substantively spoken or read any French in almost forty years (fuck – that makes you feel old).

    However, it is easy enough to understand. From that cartoon on the front of the magazine in the pic I read:

    POURQUOI MEGHAN A
    QUITTÉ BUCKINGHAM

    which I think means «why has Meghan left Buckingham». Shame about the punctuation, but allowing for a little “artistic licence” I think most will get the gist.

    It then says:

    Parce què je ne pouvais plus respirer!

    Better punctuation this time¹ and the meaning equally easy is «because I am no longer able to respire”. Again, I think mist get the gist.

    So there’s your answer, Cunstable. The wording (but not the actual cartoon itself) is, strictly speaking, taking the piss out of St George. I never imagined my O-level in French might be so useful.

    (although I thought “Parce que” was hyphenated and I imagine “respirer” should be “réspirer”… but I may be wrong and can’t be arsed Googling it because I couldn’t give a tuppeny fuck)

  2. My French is shocking; I got an A in “O-level” in 1982 and that was it. I have not substantively spoken or read any French in almost forty years (fuck – that makes you feel old).

    However, it is easy enough to understand. From that cartoon on the front of the magazine in the pic I read:

    POURQUOI MEGHAN A
    QUITTÉ BUCKINGHAM

    which I think means «why has Meghan left Buckingham». Shame about the punctuation, but allowing for a little “artistic licence” I think most will get the gist.

    It then says:

    Parce què je ne pouvais plus respirer!

    Better punctuation this time¹ and the meaning equally easy is «because I am no longer able to respire”. Again, I think mist get the gist.

    So there’s your answer, Cunstable. The wording (but not the actual cartoon itself) is, strictly speaking, taking the piss out of St George. I never imagined my O-level in French might be so useful.

    (although I thought “Parce que” was hyphenated and I imagine “respirer” should be “réspirer”… but I may be wrong and can’t be arsed Googling it because I couldn’t give a tuppeny fuck)

    • Sorry ’bout that. Again, one «blockquote» too many impairing legibility. Pls delete first comment, if it’s no bother.
      Ta

      • Your French isn’t too bad but I would suggest the following.

        “Pourquoi Meghan a quitté Buckingham [sic]” translates as “Why Meghan left Buckingham [Palace]”. The perfect tense in French can translate into both the perfect tense and the past tense in English so the preceding text could also be translated as “Why Meghan has left Buckingham [Palace]”.

        The French verb “respirer” translates into English as “to breathe”, so the sentence would mean “Because I can no longer breathe”.

      • “Respire” in English means breathe. It was supposed to be humorous, but not to worry.

        Not sure your meaning at

        The perfect tense in French can translate into both the perfect tense and the past tense in English

        «a quitté» is the French passé composé which translates into English as “has left”. Maybe a better translation here would be ‘Why did Meghan leave Buckingham” rather like the “why did the chicken cross the road” jokes. It is plainly a question however, and needs a question mark (because the «parce què… respirer!», is the reply, c/w exclamation mark.

        No, HBC you’re quite incorrect. My French is truly shocking, though my understanding of their grammar is OK. My English is better, as is my Mandarin, Turkish, German, Dutch… and my Czech isn’t bad either.

      • For total clarity, however, I plainly need to point out my meaning, ROFL Coconuts. It wasn’t about the niceties of translation of the passé composé into English, straightforward as that may be.

        It was a direct answer to the question in the Cuntststable’s nomination. He had it seems, slightly embarrassingly, missed the point that the complaints about racism in the Charlie Hebdo cover lay/lie in the implications of the annotations and not (so much) in the artwork itself; as he clearly supposed.

        Capiche?

      • You sound angry, Lional? Is it because you perceive yourself slighted?

        Do not worry, your self aggrandising on a site called ‘Is a cunt’ will always remain a true testament to your actual self-worth.

      • I’m not even slightly angry, ROFL, and can’t imagine why you think I might feel “slighted”. Actually, I’m in a very good mood as I don’t need to do anything until after lunch tomorrow, so I can have a nice lie in.

        Clearly neither you nor HBC realise that «pourquoi… Buckingham» is obviously meant as a question. Still, could be worse. You could have written a nomination and totally missed the point altogether.

        As for the “self aggrandising on a site called ‘Is a cunt’ will always remain a true testament to your actual self-worth” other than laughter I’m not too sure how to respond. Perhaps it would be OK on another site. LinkedIn, perhaps?

        You’re pretty amusing, but I’m off to bed fairly soon (I’m on GMT and it’s half past midnight). Lie in or not, I’ve had a busy few weeks and am pretty tired.

      • But you see, Lionel, the nominator didn’t miss the point. All he did in fact was report what the headlines were.

        The media widely regarded the cartoon as racist going by just the picture, and it seems the speech bubble wording flew straight over their heads. Do try and keep up, there’s a good chap.

        I have been busy of late but when I do pop back I have to admit I find you quite amusing too.

        Uwma.

      • Your response is incorrect to the point of being slightly bizarre, ROFL!

        You say

        The speech bubble wording flew straight over their heads

        yet the linked Washington Post piece says at ¶3:

        The former American actress, who married into the royal family in 2018, says in the drawing that she left “because I couldn’t breathe anymore.”

        .
        At ¶4, the WP article continues:

        The image and phrase are references to George Floyd….

        Not quite “going by just the picture” then, as you embarrassingly wrongly assert.

        Try to keep up? You didn’t even bother to read the first few paragraphs of the link! Oops – and I thought I was tired! You really are funny though!

      • Bizarre? Oh contraire. It seems the problem is you pretended you didn’t read the rest, Lionel…..

        “The artwork depicting Meghan and the queen has been widely criticized by social media users from all over the world, with many describing it as disrespectful and racist.”

        Just stop now or all further attempts of you trying to be perceived as Rumpole instead of Lionel Hutz will simply seem foolish and embarrassing!

        You are amusing, if little else.

      • Ooops, and of course I should add the actual headline from the link, the part you conveniently left out 😉

        “French magazine Charlie Hebdo depicts Queen Elizabeth kneeling on Meghan’s neck”

        None of this should of course deflect from the clear and concise translation HBC added to your overblown version, Lionel.

  3. Markle is white. Archie is white. My 50/50 grand kids are white (with a bit of the tar brush) . Its up to us to dispel the racist views of their “teachers” . I give them Zoffany(18th century painter.. Where English and Indian men got on perfectly well. The English married the locals……..Then the fucking white women arrived, and like the feminazis of today fucked over the locals for influence and power.

  4. The Queen treading on Mad Meg’s neck. If only it were true.

    • We can only wish, maybe phil the Greek might oblige when he gets out of hospital, I bet there would be no stopping him

      • Sid@ – Big Phil is out, the old fker went by me like a maniac when I was riding my bike earlier!
        (He is training for a triathlon)..

    • Phil will be calling his friendly, local Fiat dealer for brake pads, discs, oil, filter, soft compound tyres and some bull bars. The car must be tip top before it is deployed again.

      Bring out the white Uno!

  5. I subscribe to Charlie Hebdo – it is innocent satirical fun.
    Like Private Eye used to be and punch before that.
    What next – will they have muslim nutcases going round and m*rdering the cartoonists?
    Oh, wait..

    • Private is woke, metropolitan establishment, brexit obsessed trendy. Peter Cook must be spinning in his grave.

      • I still read it for Grim Up North London

        They have dropped all the good stuff though, like Sally Jockstrap..wankers.

      • Peter Cook dying at 57 in 1995 was one of the worst early deaths of our age. I’d love to have heard Cook on podcasts where he could say whatever the fuck he liked, it would have been mental.

      • Peter Cook would have probably joined ISAC. Alongside Keith Moon, Peter Grant, Charlton Heston, Lemmy, Brian Clough and Bill Shankly.

      • Private Eye’s Royal Interview Quiz was pretty non woke:

        https://mobile.twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1372869396809576450?prefetchtimestamp=1616201890460

        1. I don’t read the tabloids, but they are so unpleasant I had to leave the country.
        2. The racism in Britain was so bad we’ve come to the United States.
        3. For security reasons it’s better to live in a country where everyone has a gun.
        4. As a mere A-list actress on a top rated show I was totally unprepared to enter the media spotlight.
        5. We wanted our son to be a royal prince, even though royalty is a gilded cage that makes people trapped and unhappy.
        6. As an American actress and friend of Hollywood celebrities, I did not have the phone number of a therapist.
        7. My letter to my father is deeply private, Harry’s unanswered phone call to his father should be shared with the world.
        8. Meghan is not to blame for me leaving the royal family. I couldn’t have done it without her.
        9. I’m broke, apart from the millions my mother left me.
        10. I love my grandmother so much I’m completely loyal to her. Fuck you, granny.

  6. I was banned from French lessons for being a cunt early 70’s, Grew up in Oz so refused to see the point of French ffs everyone speaks English why bother.. So what Marlke sparkle a cunt, Froggie cunts, Queen of England not a cunt.

    • Good call Sir Fiddler – the days when you could have a brawl with Flo the Wife in a national newspaper are long gone!

    • Andy Capp, Garth, Beau Peep, and Hagar the Horrible were my favourites.

      Oh, and Axa and Geroge and Lynne because of the tits.

  8. Odious French cunts. Don’t expect me to post pictures of the tricolour toilet paper next time Mo’s massiv goes on a beheading rampage in the area.

    You brutally murdered your royalty and replaced them with Micron and Shamnozy and the like.

    France, only exists to keep the Germans a reasonable distance from Blighty and you can’t even manage that.

    Snail munching smelly fuckers.

  9. Well I find it quite amusing. A lot depends on which side you are on…….Her Maj and all she represents or some two bob Hollywoke scrubber.
    I imagine the Wokies will find it offensive but then everything is racist and offensive to those miserable cunts.

  10. Blek Lies Mither will be round there tomorrow to hold a peaceful demonstration involving burning the office to the ground then nicking some new flat screen tellys and awful trainers.
    That will learn them.

  11. Ah hell if I’m white I am racist, I’m told so fuck it I’ll just go with it:
    I’ve lived my life somehow keeping dar-kees down.
    I’ve judged everyone I’ve ever encountered based on the pigment of their epidermis.
    I should pay reparations for all the ways I’ve exercised my supremacy over the cullards.
    I hate phaghuts too while I’m at it.
    I’m sure I’m overlooking some sins against some oppressed categories so feel free to help me out here.
    What am I and what have I done? Let me have it.

  12. It’s funny but I am sure the Maghanator will complain, if I had drawn the cartoon I would have coloured the Megs face half and half just to make the fucking point 😂

    • Be more accurate to colour her 95% white, 5% darkish. And do we know if she’s had a nose and lips job? Neither are négroid in appearance.

      • Not only had I never heard of sparkletits until a few years ago, I genuinely had no idea she was even mixed heritage.
        Until I was reminded of this incredible fact 150 times a day that is.

      • It’s noticeable that she has darkened a bit since moving the sunny California, she has a ‘white’ face, maybe her pussy has the big lips 😂

  13. Of course the cartoon is racist.
    Everything is racist when you deliberately look for it. Abbot / Lammy / Butler, spring to mind.
    Remember the picture Danny Baker posted? He never said the royal offspring of a mixed race mother was a chimp. The people who made the connection did.

  14. The cartoon isnt racist in the slightest, anyone with a brain can see it seems to be an attempt at wokeness, depicting poor oppressed black(???) Meghan being on the receiving of the royal family’s supposed racism. Clearly the Hebdo saps (who I championed for their daring Islam slapdown) watched the Oprah interview and got brainwashed by doe eyed Meghans manipulation and aggressive use of the race card. Shame.

    • Yup it’s woke. Weakly going as long with Woke. Fuck me it throws a bit of light on them as well. They’re not deep satirists at all. A lot of it just publicity hunting.. ‘Je suis Charlie’ not me. It was a stupenfously reckless act to publish the cartoons of Mohammad.
      I mean a ‘political cartoon’ is OF the day. Think Harold Wilson licking LBJ ‘s arsehole at the time of the Vietnam War. Really licking right up there he is you can see. Perfectly legit. Perfectly OK.
      But to just enrage incite a notoriously volatile ill educated religious group for NO obvious political gain to me was pointless. To think nothing would happen.
      It was publish and be damned. But not for any specific goal.

  16. Rule 1 of wokery – always be sure to have zero sense of humour.
    Rule 2 – always be condescending while taking offence on behalf of somebody you don’t even know or secretly consider inferior.
    Rule 3 – most important of all – always be a gargantuan cunt.

  17. I checked the Pantone ref and it’s Megain’s correct natural colour 4034C (Medium/Light Orange).

    She’s a way off Pantone 19-0303 TCX (Jet Black).

    Ergo no racism here.

    HTH

  19. Rather than kneeling on Markle’s neck, Her Maj should kick the silly bitch in the cunt.

  20. Markle is a disrespectful cunt who dissed our queen to Oprah, and deserves to have her next trampled on. Who gives a fuck about the race angle? She’s still a cunt FFS!

  21. I have to say, Megan needs someone to kneel on her nick, in fact I’m up for that, knee on the neck in the style of that recent chigun George mother fucker.
    Best bit is the whiney slag isn’t black…..

    • The Queen is probably thinking…..

      ‘Pfffft American actresses! I wish it was 40 years ago and you were marrying Andrew instead, you would have deserved each other!’

      • And to think, the Firm refused Koo Stark entry to the Royals.
        But they let the Markle Mantis in?! How standards have dropped. Koo was tastier and all.

  24. Nutmeg will rue the day she kidnapped arryOrangutan. It’s just time and place but it will be something and we won’t see it coming but come it will ,a new invention for her demise.

    • Shocking that this should be considered a criminal offence. Rather than prosecuting Sargeant Jones they should be promoting him to Met Commissioner.

  28. If he wants to do a better cartoon, I suggest the fat, greasy and woke-obsessed rag known as METRO, kneeling on the decent people of this country whilst shouting “I’m a victim!”

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