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raincitygirl) wrote2014-04-05 08:00 pm
raincitygirl) wrote2014-04-05 08:00 pm
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I am re-reading Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse, and I am reminded of how much I adore Ginger Corrigan. She's such a fun character, and practical-minded, too. The Pale Horse is an old standby as a comfort read.
My mum came over today, and Young Miss Weaver actually submitted to being petted by her. And for several minutes, too. My ex-feral is making significant progress!
Cutting for discussion of anti-Semitism and the quenelle. Not particularly triggery or explicit discussions, I don't think, but it seems as good a place as any to put the cut tag:
So, I didn’t write about this at the time that it happened, because it kind of weirded me out. Back in December, a French professional footballer (read: soccer player) named Nicolas Anelka was playing for West Bromwich Albion (a club in the English Premier League), he scored a goal, and he made a gesture. The match was being broadcast live in France. He subsequently went on Twitter to say he was dedicating the goal to his friend, comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala.
Neither the gesture nor the dedication meant much to people in England, but people in France were pretty soon saying, “Um, that gesture is called the quenelle, and it’s anti-Semitic. Also, M’bala M’bala has been banned from performing in France because of the anti-Semitic nature of his act.” Anelka protested his innocence, it all got very messy and complicated, and in the end, Anelka was fined by the Football Association and banned for 5 matches.
From the newspaper reports, Dieudonne M’bala M’bala sounds like a most unpleasant character, not so much a Holocaust denier as a Holocaust celebrater. He sounds like a Hitler groupie, basically. So far, so distasteful. Here’s the part where it gets weird: M’bala M’bala is mixed-race. His father is originally from Cameroon and his mother is from France. How in the wide world can a mixed-race person support the Nazis? Did he not get the memo that Hitler thought non-white people were subhuman? It's a fairly crucial memo to miss out on.
I don’t get it. I really and truly just don’t get it. I can understand a white person glorifying Hitler (I don’t *approve*, obviously, but there is a certain logic to it). But M’bala M’bala I don’t get at all. There's weird, and then there's WEIRD.
I don't pretend to be *any* kind of expert on French culture or French politics, incidentally. All I know about the situation comes from reading a few articles by British journalists. But from my uninformed viewpoint, this seems like an exceptionally weird situation.
My mum came over today, and Young Miss Weaver actually submitted to being petted by her. And for several minutes, too. My ex-feral is making significant progress!
Cutting for discussion of anti-Semitism and the quenelle. Not particularly triggery or explicit discussions, I don't think, but it seems as good a place as any to put the cut tag:
So, I didn’t write about this at the time that it happened, because it kind of weirded me out. Back in December, a French professional footballer (read: soccer player) named Nicolas Anelka was playing for West Bromwich Albion (a club in the English Premier League), he scored a goal, and he made a gesture. The match was being broadcast live in France. He subsequently went on Twitter to say he was dedicating the goal to his friend, comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala.
Neither the gesture nor the dedication meant much to people in England, but people in France were pretty soon saying, “Um, that gesture is called the quenelle, and it’s anti-Semitic. Also, M’bala M’bala has been banned from performing in France because of the anti-Semitic nature of his act.” Anelka protested his innocence, it all got very messy and complicated, and in the end, Anelka was fined by the Football Association and banned for 5 matches.
From the newspaper reports, Dieudonne M’bala M’bala sounds like a most unpleasant character, not so much a Holocaust denier as a Holocaust celebrater. He sounds like a Hitler groupie, basically. So far, so distasteful. Here’s the part where it gets weird: M’bala M’bala is mixed-race. His father is originally from Cameroon and his mother is from France. How in the wide world can a mixed-race person support the Nazis? Did he not get the memo that Hitler thought non-white people were subhuman? It's a fairly crucial memo to miss out on.
I don’t get it. I really and truly just don’t get it. I can understand a white person glorifying Hitler (I don’t *approve*, obviously, but there is a certain logic to it). But M’bala M’bala I don’t get at all. There's weird, and then there's WEIRD.
I don't pretend to be *any* kind of expert on French culture or French politics, incidentally. All I know about the situation comes from reading a few articles by British journalists. But from my uninformed viewpoint, this seems like an exceptionally weird situation.