Christopher KeeltyApr 27, 2015
Is Garry Trudeau Right About Charlie Hebdo?
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Like much of his generation, Trudeau is too happy to reprimand the youngsters for their “cluelessness.” But maybe if he and his fellow Baby Boomers remained clueless and radical instead of cowering for fear of crossing red lines, his generation might not be the worst generation ever, constantly patting themselves on the back for their hippie radicalism* while handing over a society and a planet that they all but destroyed.
Here’s a ‘political cartoonist’ who has a million reasons he will no longer parody the President, a one-time subversive who suspended his cartoon to develop a web series for a massive exploitative corporation. Listen up, everybody, he’s going to lecture about where the line should be drawn.