I do like swipes at the priesthood, I grew up with them and they helped me develop solid defences against fairy stories and abuses of power. It’s partly that heritage which raises my hackles against the lazy intellectual arrogance of a Muslim-basher. An anti-religious posture gives such a person a convenient way to relax in their ignorance, to dress up their knee-jerk mental reactions as defiance. It gives respectability to a gaping lack of imagination, and a conformity which is corrupted by the come-hither eyes of the extreme right Disclaimer: the censure levied against Charlie Hebdo expressed by Olivier Cyran in this piece is razor sharp and caustic, so fair warning on your sensibilties, but seeing as this letters author is a former CH rank and file who split with the publication on grounds of professional tyranny, and a latent, mounting low brow anti-Islamic neurosis, I think his viewpoint deals serious qualified blows to the claim of the publication as being some pillar of satirical greatness possessing in the next blink an ostensible dedication to anti-bigoted and leftist ethos. Like I said, the words in this open letter are scathingly sarcastic, disappointed, and indulgent on insulting the rock bottom journey of Charlie Hebdos material. Its for that reason, and the eloquence and erudition of the author that this is possibly the best rendering of the case that satirizing low hanging fruit is both stupid and degrading to the prestige of real examples of weaponized humor, in cases when undermining power is genuinely risky and heroic, not obviously cheap, further demeaning an already ostracized group or subject, unfairly suspected and mistreated in a fashion fit only for the depressing cretinism of a stunted audience. TW: Rape, Mohammed
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 08:14:17 +0000
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