4 Responses to “Remember “Je ne suis pas Charlie”?”

• #1

  Paul

  January 9, 2019 at 12:19 am

  If I remember correctly, Le Monde published an analysis of Charlie Hebdo’s covers shortly after the “Je ne suis pas Charlie nonsense” started.

  The vast majority of their targets were political. When they did run a cartoon aimed at religious figures, the vast majority of these were aimed at the Catholic church. Which is what you would expect from a French satirical magazine.

  The Anglophone writers leveling, frankly weaselly accusations against the magazine were not only disgusting. They were also too lazy to bother finding out what it was they were criticising.
• #2

  Omar

  January 9, 2019 at 3:25 am

  The Anglophone writers leveling, frankly weaselly accusations against the magazine were not only disgusting. They were also too lazy to bother finding out what it was they were criticising.

  Quite a condemnation; undoubtedly well deserved.

  Islam’s present contributions to world literature, science and understanding are pretty well totally negative.

  It is a terrible religion.
• #3

  John the Drunkard

  January 9, 2019 at 7:05 am

  I don’t think the ‘Je ne suis’ crowd were bothered by laziness or incuriosity. They were, and are, blindly committed to groveling before Islamism. There’s a long decline in standards and morals demonstrated here. I suspect its leftover Cold War loyalty from the days when Nasser made the United Arab Republic a Soviet client-state.
• #4

  iknklast

  January 9, 2019 at 8:47 am

  JtD – I think it’s more than that. It’s an overreaction to western imperialism (something worthy of reacting against) that mindlessly parrots any school of thought that is non-western, and assumes all things western must be bad and all things eastern must be good. That is a form of laziness, because it doesn’t require working on the moral ambiguities, or sorting out which things in western thought might be good (and there are many) and which things in eastern thought might not be so good (like murdering those who disagree with you or putting women in bags). But it isn’t just laziness, it’s a deeply-held determination to be woke, to always side with the oppressed, even when the oppressed are on the side of harming people, to justify all actions that target western thought and western ideas.

  In fact, it is so embedded in certain parts of our culture that I often see people referring to “western science” and “western medicine” in an argument against using some drug/technique/etc, without stating why the thing argued against might be dangerous or bad for you. In fact, many of the things argued against are not bad for you, they merely spawn a knee-jerk reaction from the ultra-woke crowd because they either arose in the west, or are perceived as having their roots in the west. Any embrace of “western” science or philosophy by someone from the eastern or southern countries is perceived as a sell-out to imperialism by this same woke crowd.

  In short, it’s the same thing driving many of the trans-activists that are not trans themselves – the desire to be on the “right” side, and the identification of anything and everything that is on the “wrong” side as bad and dangerous. Laziness coupled with dogmatism and ideology can be a dreadful combination.