Polish internet users are shocked by Belgian cartoons on Kaczynski death
Published: 14 April, 2010, 20:06
Edited: 05 October, 2010, 20:29
Poland is disturbed by a Belgian newspaper’s cartoons on the recent deadly plane crash, which killed Polish president Lech Kazcynski, his wife and dozens of Polish political, cultural and religious elite.
those people had no feelings!!! i'd like to wrote to them but have any contact details... how can you make jokes/cartoons about such tragedy???????????????
In particular, a Flemish newspaper... Three parts in Belgium: Flanders on one side, Brussels and Wallonia, including the German speaking community on the other. Flemish sometimes lack empathy for other human beings.
Shilka, you can see the picture here: http://i.imgur.com/yhuRW.jpg I personally find it offensive and of very bad taste, and I'm not even polish.
http://www.lesoir.be/zc/vignettes475x300/mediastore/_2010/avril/du_11_au_20/_14_gazet2.jpg This is the link. And today they finally apologised after houndreds of emails from disgusted people. Btw. Thank you for all nice words and support during those hard days for us. And now this :/ Do you know how French people joke about them (citizens of Belgium)? "Stupid as Belge" Seems like it's true. It's not the first time they insult people's feeling after tragic events. Shame on them.
Journalism and free expression in some nations, like Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium, can be very insensitive at times of tragedy. Belgium is a deeply divided nation, which should be split up between France and the Netherlands. Only the European Union is holding it together. I would rather spend a week in Poland rather than one day in Belgium.
i just have one thing to say to the creators of the 'the eagle has landed' cartoon in the gazet van antverpen: when your leaders die or someone in your family, let me know. i can be pretty creative, too... we will laugh together. boneheads!!!
I don't feel offended and I cannot be. This is how someone, a caricaturist or a cartoonist or an artist or however the position's called, found it suitable to react. What we consider "offensive" or "non-offensive" should be our private matter. We might wonder why did the Belgian man/woman draw it or publish it this way and not another, but that's all we're allowed to as Poles and as humans. Perhaps there is some sense behind this picture, some rationale that is actually wise. I might not see it yet, but this wouldn't make it nonexistent. I've seen it and I'm a Pole. But - note - the fact I'm Polish should not weigh on anything nor influence how you interpret or react to this message.
Of course, artists are free to express themselves... let him/her hang it at home... or at the editors' house. A decision to publish 'such a piece of art' is quite brainless... PS. Not only French but also the Dutch say that the Belgians are stupid...
Why is this a big issue?? They are known for their offensive caricature of Mohammed(Muslim's prophet). So what is the different??
this is evident hate bulling towards Poland just like in Nazi Germany before the outbreake of the II World War ....this is a pity that such a low and unhuman fillings could be spread in EU 65 years after war ....and Poland is still a subject of dirty bulling after all these horrors and tragedies !!!!!
I am Polish and find this picture quite funny. There is nothing to be disturbed about. Its free world










I would like to see this picture can anyone link it perhaps?