That there should be a furor

jollyroger — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 02:52:38 +0000

In reply to A French Clown’s Hateful Gesture

That there should be a furor over a cloaked nazi salute is somewhat quaint to us, inured as we are by the First Amendment to seeing the real thing on a more or less regular basis.

That this occurs in a country whose Resistance struggle more or less wrote the script for heroic underground efforts is unsettling, if ironic.

Surely De Gaulle and Petain are wrestling in trans-styx struggle. My money is on Le Grand Charles, but I am a known sentimentalist.

This paragraph is

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 21:28:16 +0000

In reply to A French Clown’s Hateful Gesture

This paragraph is particularly thought-provoking:

The son of a white mother and a black father, Mr. M’Bala M’Bala will continue to surf a wave created by the “competition of victims” in a country that is historically “guilty” twice over: toward the Jews, for its participation in the collaborationist Vichy regime, and toward its black and Arab citizens, for its colonial past. By calling Jews “slave traders,” Mr. M’Bala M’Bala plays a game of provoking the authorities’ squeamishness about anti-Semitism, even as other expressions of racism get a pass. When Dieudonné described Ms. Taubira as a “cheetah,” there was scarcely a stir.

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That there should be a furor

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