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How Obamacare happened, and what might happen next.
One of the spontaneous social-media reactions to
the Charlie Hebdo
today was the Twitter hashtag
("I am Charlie"). It's an admirable sentiment, resonant with
the classic post-9/11 Le Monde cover
"." It's also totally
inaccurate.
If we—all of us, any of us—were Charlie
Hebdo, here are some of the things that we might
* Not just print original
satirical cartoons taking the piss out of Islamic-terrorist
sensibilities, but do so six days after you were
for taking the piss out of
Islamic-terrorist sensibilities (pictured), and do so in such a way
that's genuinely funny (IMO) and even touching, with the message
"Love is stronger than hate."
* Not just print original cartoons of the Prophet
Muhammad—a , lest we forget—but then
the right to do so after being
charged with offensive speech.
* Not just survive such crucibles, but stubbornly resist
letting them consume your very being, either by becoming an
anti-Islamist obsessive, or a semi-apologetic convert (remember:
even the unfathomably brave Salman Rushdie converted to Islam for a
while there), or disappearing yourself in the witness protection
program, a la the Seattle alt-weekly cartoonist . Charlie Hebdo kept being
what it has always been—a satirical, juvenile, and funny check
on power and authority and pomposity of all stripes. Do a
search on "Charlie Hebdo" and "Jesus," and then
ask yourself which media entity in this Culture-War-scarred
country, with its stronger free-speech protections, would have the
courage and latitude to blaspheme both major
religions.
Look at the cover of this recent
, which sits proudly on my desk: Those aren't the
heads of ancient religions, those are heads of the French state,
dressed up like gangsters. The newspaper didn't just run cartoons,
it blasted authority and piety of all stripes, beginning with the
pompous asses who tend to run France, and the equally pompous (but
more subservient) hacks in the national press. The paper actually
got its start in 1970 when another satirical publication was
shuttered for its disrespect at the funeral of . It frequently published stuff that most journalists
know, but are too afraid to stand by.
The cartoonists who were killed today—Wolinski, Cabu,
Tignous, Charb—were some of the most beloved figures in modern
French life. Contra some of the nonsense being mouthed today by
fools on Twitter, these weren't some kind of Andrew Dice
Clay acts looking for ever-more vulnerabl
, for instance,
is most famous for creating the provincial, typical-French
character Mon Beauf, who he mocks for being crude and
bigoted toward minorities. My French father-in-law, whose
Gaullist-flavored politics were certainly satirized by Cabu over
the years, said that today felt like being stabbed in the
So no, we're all not Charlie—few of us are that good,
and none of us are that brave. If more of us were brave,
and refused to yield to the bomber's veto, and maybe reacted to
these eternally recurring moments not by, say, , as the
Associated Press is reportedly doing today, but rather by routinely
posting newsworthy images in service both to readers and the
commitment to a diverse and diffuse , then just maybe Charlie Hebdo wouldn't have
stuck out so much like a sore thumb. It's harder, and ultimately
less rewarding to the fanatical mind, to hit a thousand small
targets than one large one.
And it's not just those of us in the media business who
have failed to be Charlie Hebdo. Every person
in the broader West, whether it be a Financial
or the , who wrongly thinks that
speech should not offend, and falsely believes that artistic
commentary can somehow
murderous violence, are also contributing to an ever-worsening
cultural climate of speech, and therefore freedom.
Today is an awful day for the . Do you really wanna be
Charlie Hebdo? Then get on out there, live and speak
bravely. And God help you.
Matt Welch is editor in chief of Reason magazine and co-author with Nick Gillespie of&.
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