‘God Exists!’ Charlie Hebdo Cartoon Depicts Harvey Victims as Drowning Neo-Nazis
Charlie Hebdo is turning a few heads again, this time for their cartoon about the flood victims of Hurricane Harvey.
The latest issue of the satirical — and very often controversial — French magazine has a cover where submerged Texans are sticking their hands out of the water for a Nazi salute to a bunch of swastika flags. The headline’s translation is “God Exists! He drowned all the Neo-Nazis of Texas.”
Multiple public figures have taken notice of the latest cartoon, and there’s quite a few people who are not impressed:
Today, we are not all Charlie Hebdo. https://t.co/RXFQjN0Zgf pic.twitter.com/PdqPSCJP6H
— Byron York (@ByronYork) August 31, 2017
An evil, despicable cover. Also, the losers at Charlie Hebdo have a God-given right to publish it, & no one has the right to shoot them pic.twitter.com/isOVjkXPR0
— Tiana Lowe (@TianaTheFirst) August 30, 2017
This Charlie Hebdo cover on the Houston disaster is, even by their standards, absolutely disgusting.https://t.co/iaIReTHlnV pic.twitter.com/BMHpXCqAnS
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 31, 2017
Charlie Hebdo can publish this. I can also call it garbage since my non-Nazi friends and family in Texas are still treading water. Fuck you. pic.twitter.com/EwB2Jti6zd
— Andrew Husband (@AndrewHusband) August 31, 2017
Joe Walsh, of course, managed to botch his condemnation of the cartoon, bizarrely claiming that the magazine “makes fun of everyone but Muslims” (a reminder to Walsh: the magazine was the subject of a terror attack in 2015 that left 12 people dead because they made fun of Islam too much):
French rag Charlie Hebdo mocks Harvey victims as Neo Nazis
Charlie Hebdo makes fun of everyone but Muslims. Cowards https://t.co/VUnXuN1ARy
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) August 31, 2017
As Texas continues to recover from the natural disaster, there have been a number of figures who’ve been slammed for their insensitivity for the victims. A college professor in Florida was fired for saying the storm was “instant karma” after Texas voted for President Trump in 2016, and Politico received criticism for their own Hurricane Harvey cartoon as well.
[Image via screengrab]
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