In 2005, a French court banned a fashion ad that depicted Christ's Last Supper with Jesus and his disciples as women.
The ruling called the ad "a gratuitous and aggressive act of intrusion on people's innermost beliefs."
#JeSuisSamuel
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The ruling called the ad "a gratuitous and aggressive act of intrusion on people's innermost beliefs."
#JeSuisSamuel
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/43…
"Rape cartoons are funny if it’s inconceivable to you that you could ever be raped. If you live in a bubble that insulates you from all consequences of rape culture.
"AIDS jokes are funny if you’ve never loved someone who died of AIDS."
#JeSuisSamuel
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"AIDS jokes are funny if you’ve never loved someone who died of AIDS."
#JeSuisSamuel
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October 15, 1957. The French chained her to a truck, dragged her through Algiers, warning through loudspeakers that this 'reward' would befall all resisters of French occupation. Then they tortured her for 10 days, and threw her out of a helicopter to her death. #JeSuisSamuel
"In 1961, Parisian police chucked an untold number of Algerian migrants into the Seine and left them to drown. Decades later, the massacre still has no name... it exemplifies the French Republic’s failure to reckon with its colonial history."
#JeSuisSamuel
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Remember when a Charlie Hebdo cover depicted French Minister of Justice, Christiane Taubira, a Black woman, as a monkey?
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