Ill Humors

Humor can be a difficult topic. First of all, few things are truly funny. Fewer things are worse than someone who tries to be funny, but isn’t. Moreover, what I regard as funny https://phonefindservice.info , other people may find vulgar, silly, or – worst – not humorous. British subjects know of the worst comment the Queen can make towards you: ‘We are not amused’.

French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala has tried being a joke all his life. Dark-skinned, of French/Cameroon descent, he courted french white supremacist Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the neonazi Front National party. Recently, he’s become more and more anti-semitic, and more racist. One of his more controversial inventions is the Quenelle, a gesture deliberately reminiscent of the Nazi salute. His comedy routine usually revolves around making fun of Jews in general, and the Holocaust in particular.
Many of Dieudonné’s fans are also racist. Many more are, surprisingly, Islamists. Now, white supremacists and Islamists make strange bedfellows, and I would have thought that mixing them should result in immediate, and violent, combustion. It doesn’t, and that doesn’t bode well for the rest of us.

But is is kind of funny when the same Islamists that are quick to call you a racist when you dare to criticize their belief, cheer on a racist – a racist, by the way, who glorifies a system that would have him, and many of his followers, quickly executed in the same gas chambers Dieudonné denies ever existed.

I’m not amused.