Episode 582 • • 1:51:32 - 1:54:42
582: Eradicate Misery
Dieudonné Mbala Mbala, Quenelle Gesture, French Free Speech
French comedian Dieudonné Mbala Mbala has been banned from performing his show after the government characterized his "quenelle" hand gesture as an inverted Nazi salute. Dieudonné maintains the gesture is anti-establishment rather than anti-Semitic and has filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights. The ban has sparked a debate over the limits of free speech in France and whether the government's actions are providing the comic with more publicity.