Coco Chanel (quokk.au)
submitted 6 months ago by [A] to c/comics@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 
A four-panel comic showing two women preparing for dinner. One, wearing a black dress and accessories, asks for advice. The other, with blue hair, quotes an antisemitic statement attributed to Coco Chanel, then mentions the fashion designer's history as a Nazi collaborator before dismissively changing the subject.
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[–] 58 points 6 months ago (33 children)

Also this comic doesn't prescribe a stance on Chanel's beliefs. That's funny.

Do you honestly need the comic to explicitly spell out their stance and/or hold your hand through reading between the lines to figure it out yourself? I think this is more of a reading comprehension problem rather than a failure on the artist's part, no offense.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    The joke only works if you already know the (admittedly famous) Coco Chanel quote.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Does it? I comprehended it just fine without prior knowledge of the quote.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    The quote being discussed is not the one in the comic. It's that she Chanel said to take off the last accessory you put on before you go out, basically saying people out too many on. It's still obvious it's against Nazis, in my opinion, but knowing this tells you that they're ignoring her advice because she was wrong about plenty of other things, why should we assume she's right about this?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    You can still infer that the Nazi said something similar by looking at their expressions, the way they phrase things, and what they are surprised by.

    The blonde is not surprised that the Nazi is quoted as an authority on fashion, but is surprised by the Nazi being a Nazi. The blue-haired person treats the Nazi quote as sufficient evidence to assuage the blonde's doubts.

    If anything, you're interpreting this too narrowly. The blonde isn't anxious about the Nazi's opinion, but about the people that will see them at dinner. The comic suggests not just that the Nazi can be disregarded as a Nazi, but that the public perception of fashion is poisoned by Nazi standards and deserves to be defied.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It's funnier but it's not required

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    The same joke with Hugo Boss would amount to "Nazi bad", which is true but not terribly funny.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    I wasn't talking about it not being Coco Chanel, but not knowing her. I didn't knew her and found it funny because I assumed she was an important person in fashion.

    It the joke was made with someone unrelated to fashion it would be worse.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Hugo Boss was a fashion icon and a literal nazi, but the joke wouldn't work with him either. It works because it's a bait and switch: when the girl asks "you know what Coco Chanel said...", you're expecting the famous "Before you leave the house, look at yourself in the mirror and take one thing off."

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  • [+] -32 points 6 months ago* (22 children)
  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (21 children)

    Yes it is. Because nazis have very little reading comprehension.

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    What exactly is your point, here? Are you suggesting a comic about gay women and jewelry is by a Nazi? What are you getting at?

    And btw, 'collaborator' in this context is usually a negative connotation unless she's talking about a Nazi fashion project.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    Someone ”being a collaborator" is a negative phrase, just like being Infamous is being famous for bad things. No one calls someone a collaborator positively. "In collaboration," or "we collaborated" are innocent. "A collaborator," usually an accusation of being complicit in a crime.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (12 children)

    "You can tell how smart someone is by how they play this board game"

    Of course you think that, you're twelve

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  • [+] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)
  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    tabloid anti-Epsteinism

    oh so you're a pedophile

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago* (8 children)

    Stop rattling things off the top of your head that you've never investigated you absolute fucking moron.

    I guess you were too overeager to vice signal that you're indifferent about raping and murdering children

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  • [+] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)
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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Because you started the post with "I'm not a pedophile I just don't care if my global leaders are" and ended with a wiki article about Czech arms shipments to Israel in a 3 month dead thread

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  • [+] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I didn’t use Lemmy for three months or so because it is ass. I log on, see someone has responded and respond back

    That's some nice main character syndrome you have there

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