Unmournable Frenchies (reaction to Charlie Hebdo)

[ingemann]

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[ingemann]

I read the Cole article when it was published. This article flat-out lies about what Cole means by 'unmournable'. And about the tone and content of the Cole article in general, really.

Dolan doesn't really aim for factual accuracy or nuance, that's an essential part of his schtick.

I like the fact that he carve the sugar way away, which make things look reasonable and focus on the what the person say without the sugar coating.

It's very sad, that people die of American drone strike in Pakistan, but this was two Frenchmen of Algerian descent murdering a bunch of French cartoonists.

[ingemann]

I also note that Dolan has the ever-tiresome Anglo cultural cringe of treating 'French “liberté” with sex, language, obscenity, and secularism' as THE COOLEST THING EVER!, and wastes no time in sh**tting all over people like Will Rogers, who is just as legitimate a representative of the English idiomatic tradition as somebody like Françoise Sagan is of the French one. I'm not surprised.

I like the fact that he carve the sugar way away, which make things look reasonable and focus on the what the person say without the sugar coating.

He's not doing that. He's lying.

Maybe, but not in his comments about Cole's article. He's describing precisely what Cole is really saying, you may only see the sugar coating, but it doesn't change the words behind, and they're ugly.

[ingemann]

This inveighing against nebulous groups of academics is yet another set of tropes that it's not exactly behovely for people ostensibly concerned with liberal values to be using.

Why, illiberal values don't become less illiberal because the man spewing them have a master degree instead of a shovel.