What am I learning? (Imagine that I shout it in the tone of José Garcia in The truth if I lie!). I learn that my last article, namely Race in the spotlight at Médiapart (see below) was censored by Facebook. Enough to confirm the substance of the remarks made on this occasion.
I reproduce them here: “They have Netflix, Disney Plus, Google, Facebookwith them but they live like Christians relegated to the catacombs of the time of persecution under the Roman Empire. It’s grotesque! » The grotesque, which claims an incontestable right of conquest, has struck again. A quick reminder of the facts: Mediapart announced the creation of a position of editorial manager for the racial question. I was torn about the appropriate response. Depending on my inclination, I poured into irony before pointing out the contradictions like the cold logician that I am in my spare time.
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An indigestible paella
The tight dialectic of agitating the racial question while maintaining anti-racist declarations of intent was as tasty as Mom’s Paella, certainly, but full of so many disparate elements that gustatory harmony was sacrificed on the altar of the intersectional tumble. I wanted to untangle in this mess the clear lines of generous stupidity, pure and simple lies and nerve.
The silky suppleness of Camp du Bien
For the nerve, I noted this: “”Talking about “race” today in France gives rise to endless controversies,” asserts Sabrina Kassa, the editorial manager for the racial question at Mediapart. We wonder because of whom… These are the same people who – let’s savor the irony – have exercised their political-linguistic terror around the use of the word “race”, which has become prohibited by their episcopal decrees, which put at the heart of their worldview the concept of race today. Do you find them cheeky? So little, so little. They may have discovered that the word “dog” does not bark and that the word not being the thing, they could find in this term, all things considered, a formidable lever for their ideological enterprise. And rest assured: the word “race” only has a sulfurous flavor if it is pronounced by a Renaud Camus, for example, a word to which he devoted a work. When this word is swallowed skillfully by a decolonial activist or a Rokhaya diallo, it unfolds quietly, in the silky suppleness of the vestals responsible for the defense of the Good in itself, without excessive platonism it is understood – which would refer to essentialism ridiculed by anti-racist bias but that’s yet another question…”
Rokhaya Diallo, the martyr of Vogue magazine
From, Facebook apparently proved me right about the variable geometry treatment reserved for those who mention this famous question… The racial question is only assigned a negative coefficient depending on who takes it up. Otherwise, it is licit, even encouraged, in its expression. But even more worrying, or more comical, I discovered at the same time the declarations of Rokhaya diallo at the tribune of theHIM from which she courageously denounced the “persecutions” she would suffer in France: “The freedom of expression of non-white women is singularly hampered,” according to her. Let us remember that this great persecuted woman worked for Canal, LCI, LCP, RTL, Radio France, Walt Disneywhich she regularly intervenes on BFM TVau Guardianhas Al-Jazeerapublishes columns for the Washington Posthas the favors of Times or from CNN. Let’s also remember the steps in Cannes and the Vogue shows which must have made her suffer excruciatingly. I will mention the article – very significant in my opinion – of the New York Times of July 15, 2020 dedicated to him:
« Racial awareness in France, where the subject remains taboo. Looking towards the United States, children of African and West Indian origin openly address the question of race, a form of challenge to French universalism. »
So, if I understand correctly and if I recap: I who am neither a woman nor non-white, I will never be invited to the United Nations to talk about the persecution that I suffer and the obstacles to freedom of expression that I am the target of when I am censored for having raised the racial question – I limited myself to quoting the title of the post created by Mediapart –, I will never have the right to an article from the Times praised for addressing “the issue of race openly,” but Facebookon the contrary will happily censure me. Apart from that, it is Madame Diallo who is oppressed and I, as a white man, who am the oppressor…
I repeat my question: “Do you find them cheeky? »
Jean Montalte
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