Go, Read: That Asinine Charlie Hebdo Editorial

Here. There's a shit-ton of stuff that's fascinating about this, but the essay itself, featuring the pairing of sweeping cultural condemnation with PC-victimhood, struck me as broadly ill-informed, self-aggrandizing and noxious. The worldview presented is an ugly one. I looked five times to see if it came out on April Fool's Day.

I get the tendency to want to find systemic causes for horrible events and I get that everyone deep down thinks they're Camp North Star, but the content of this essay set my teeth on edge. It's awful. It's possible a few more readings might yield something other than that initial opinion, but I'm doubtful. I sure as hell don't feel like reading it again.
 
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