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Je ne suis pas Charlie / Sympathize with death, not bigotry
11 years ago
You are an experience.
I'm seeing a lot of posts about the newspaper in Paris, and my hearts goes out to the colleagues, friends, and family of the victims of this shooting. No one deserves to die in such a manner.
Why I can't get behind the Je suis Charlie tagline is that the paper hides extreme racism, transphobia, homophobia, and Islamophobia, probably among other things, behind the guise of satire. Y'know that thing that people use to express humorous criticism of things but is often used to excuse trashy behavior. This tagline is sympathizing this misuse of freedom of speech, as if their death cleared out this kind of thing they were doing or as if this weren't an issue at all. Freedom of speech seems to translate as being as offensive as possible without consequence, and that's not right.
People also seem to not notice that this tagline is sprouting much hatred towards Muslims among France, a place where it was already difficult to live as a person of the Islamic faith. Mosques are being burned, and #KillAllMuslims is currently highly trending on Twitter. News flash: Muslim =/= terrorist. Terrorist come from many creeds, Christian and atheist included.
I send condolences to those to the loved ones of the deceased
I do not sympathizes with their murderers
But no
Je ne suis pas Charlie
[Edit: I wanna note that while this is gathering so much attention as an attack by Muslim terrorists, there was also an intentional bombing outside of the NAACP building by a white man, a clear attack fueled by racism, and there is almost no standard media coverage on it or who the bomber was. Why is it so easy to demonize all Muslim people for what so few people did but so hard to admit that a white guy bombed the NAACP because he was racist?)
Why I can't get behind the Je suis Charlie tagline is that the paper hides extreme racism, transphobia, homophobia, and Islamophobia, probably among other things, behind the guise of satire. Y'know that thing that people use to express humorous criticism of things but is often used to excuse trashy behavior. This tagline is sympathizing this misuse of freedom of speech, as if their death cleared out this kind of thing they were doing or as if this weren't an issue at all. Freedom of speech seems to translate as being as offensive as possible without consequence, and that's not right.
People also seem to not notice that this tagline is sprouting much hatred towards Muslims among France, a place where it was already difficult to live as a person of the Islamic faith. Mosques are being burned, and #KillAllMuslims is currently highly trending on Twitter. News flash: Muslim =/= terrorist. Terrorist come from many creeds, Christian and atheist included.
I send condolences to those to the loved ones of the deceased
I do not sympathizes with their murderers
But no
Je ne suis pas Charlie
[Edit: I wanna note that while this is gathering so much attention as an attack by Muslim terrorists, there was also an intentional bombing outside of the NAACP building by a white man, a clear attack fueled by racism, and there is almost no standard media coverage on it or who the bomber was. Why is it so easy to demonize all Muslim people for what so few people did but so hard to admit that a white guy bombed the NAACP because he was racist?)
