re: #67 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

O FFS. So I saw a tweet that willfully misinterprets this image as a racist depiction of a black man as an animal:

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Um, guys. This is Dieudonne, a well-known antisemite and Holocaust denier, and a personal friend of Le Pen Sr. to boot. What is depicted is a hand up his arse (not a tail), satirizing the antisemitic quenelle gesture that he invented, which is intended to be a new “sieg heil” (and which is explained as a hand up “Zionism’s” ass). Indeed, the image says “Bonne quenelle”.

I think the problem isn’t that the cartoon is racist, it isn’t, it’s that it objectively fails to clearly convey clearly what it intends. I don’t think it looks like a tail, but it doesn’t look like an arm to me either. If they’re going to draw a disembodied appendage like that help a brother out, maybe toss in a wristwatch or an elbow or something for reference. Because otherwise to me it looks like he’s squeezing out a yellow zucchini. I get the quenelle reference now, but I hadn’t heard of it prior to laster year when Anelka got banned for using it on the field.