I'm so exhausted

[frenchani]

Such violence, so many dead people already.

As if the situation weren't stressful enough, I just read that, apparently many people (especially Americans) are spreading lies about Charlie Hebdo on the Internet, either on tumblr or twitter, calling it a racist newspaper that "had it coming", not understanding at all what a satirical magazine is

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[harvey_rrit]

I wish I could befriend you twice for this post.

[frenchani]

That's good to hear. Thanks.

[fragrantwoods]

Been thinking about you and wishing I could give you a hug.. Such awfulness in the world :-( Hugs to the kitties,too. And yay for you spreading truth to your students!

[frenchani]

It was a very long and very tense day. During the breaks students kept checking their phones to catch up with the news...so they kept me posted too because I don't own a smartphone. It was difficult for them to focus on the lesson.

I was on the subway when the special forces (RAID and GIGN)attacked so it was over when I came back home.

[gillo]

Such a horrible few days for you. I've been thinking about you and other French friends a great deal. I wish they had captured them alive, so they could have grown old in prison.

I dislike some of Charlie Hebdo's material, but their right to publish was absolute. My heart goes out to the families of the dead and to all French people of good will who have been devastated by events. (Not Marine...)

Nous sommes tous Charlie.

[frenchani]

I wish they had captured them alive, so they could have grown old in prison.

So do I, and it would have been a symbol of law overcoming terror not weapons. But apparently it was not possible, especially in the case of the kosher store, given that there were still 15 hostages alive and saving them was the priority.

Marine Le Pen is disgusting, she's using the event to say that a referendum on death penalty must happen.

[bleodswean]

*hugs* There is always going to be two extremes to any event. I'm sorry the French are being hurt by this knee-jerk extreme. I think those folks are, for the most part, spouting this nonsense out of fear. And most of those are not creative types.

It's just terrible.

[frenchani]

There's such a serious gap when it comes to certain issues.

Those jihadists embodie lots of things, including failures from our society, but most of all they were "ignorant" and it's disheartening to see other kinds of ignorance reacting to the event, either with racist speech against Arabs and criminal actions (some imbeciles did attack mosquees here on Thursday)or with the sort of comments that have been made on the Internet about Charlie Hebdo.

I dream of a world wherein intelligence would prevail...

Re: Two articles in NY Times - and one on Muslim question

[frenchani]

Jihadists are like cult adepts recruited by gurus. Those gurus prey on vulnerable people who, for whatever reasons, feel they have no future, no hope, either because they are left out of the economic upturn, alienated indeed, or because they just suffer from mental/psychological diaseases.

There's a reason so many jihadists are recruited in jail! Prisoners are among the most vulnerable people ever.

Re: Two articles in NY Times - one on political satire debate.

[frenchani]

The cartoonists had a "no limit" rule, they would mock anything anyway. It was often funny, sometimes not so much, but humour is a very subjective thing anyway.

They actually attacked Catholic Church much more than anything else, because anticlericalism is basically a Republican tradition over here, in libertarian press. But the same Charb who was Charlie's top editor and drew so many cartoons satirizing the Church and offending Catholics also worked from time to time for a Catholic newspaper called La Vie, and his colleagues liked him there, because they knew there was no hatred in him.

*sigh*