"When will the Hungarian Prime Minister come to France to put things in order?" – this is how the Charlie Hebdo commentators defended our country.
The commentators of the notoriously left-wing, anti-Christian satirical weekly took Hungary to their defense. But how!
The famous and infamous French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo produced a caricature on August 20, the target of which was Hungary and the Hungarian border fence. However, the strongly left-wing paper, often criticizing the right-wing and Christianity in the sharpest voice, did not take into account the tsunami of reactions it received afterwards.
While an average caricature of the newspaper receives 300-700 comments, more than one and a half thousand have already landed under the drawing depicting Hungary.
On the other hand, the vast majority of comments were in our favor. The fact that, according to Facebook, the most relevant (as well as the most liked) comment is already telling: "Long live Hungary!"
But what was the caricature itself, here it is:
Source: Charlie Hebdo Facebook page
"August 20 - National holiday in Hungary. Here and not here" Source: Charlie Hebdo's Facebook page
The drawing that caused a tsunami of reaction is a largely black-and-white illustration, essentially with the following content: In Hungary, the national holiday applies to this side of the border fence, and not to the other side - on which the barbed wire has been torn off by the grasp of a horde of zombies. So the message is very simple:
we Hungarians celebrate cheerfully, and we look up to everyone else.
Let's face it, we can't blame the staff at Charlie Hebdo for believing that their target audience and readership would appeal to such a drawing. They just counted themselves out.
"Bravo, Hungarians!"
The commentators stood by us in the most varied ways possible. There were those who simply wrote, "Long live Hungary!"; someone else said he understood us, "we should do this in France too" - referring to the construction of the border fence.
One commenter went so far as to state:
Bravo to Hungary for resisting the invaders! The Resistance is organizing!”
Someone else reported that he would also come to our country on vacation, to the country "about which he had heard so many good things". He added that people should say goodbye to North Africa, because "they are all from there already here [in France - ed.]".
Several people also explained that we are only protecting our borders. Someone stated, for example, that "[the Hungarians - ed.] will show how to preserve the integrity of the country".
Several commentators recalled the Charlie Hebdo massacre:
“Funny, you guys really haven't learned anything. Too bad for you. Bravo to the Hungarian government. And when the next carnage happens, don't come crying to us this time."
one of them wrote. Another of them warned the artist who created the caricature. According to him, the author "should calm down a little" because "he forgets quite a bit about his newspaper's own history". He explained that he did not understand why sovereign countries should welcome “unrestricted, uncontrolled and often culturally hostile immigration. We can see the effects of this in many countries, including France..."
According to commentators, Hungarian migration policy is unique
The uniqueness of Hungary's border protection policy was a recurring theme. "I didn't even know that Hungary is the only place where you can eat, drink and... live." wrote a French. Another simply asked the question:
When will the Hungarian Prime Minister come to France to put things in order?"
Many also criticized the French government
Quite a few commentators addressed the migration policy of the French government with unsolicited words: "It's strange that we no longer talk about the migrants in Calais because of the coronavirus crisis..." Someone else explained that Hungarians "protect their borders, they also protect ours". .
Source and full article: mandiner.hu
Opening image: MTI/EPA/Sebastien Nogier
