Posted on 11/17/2015 6:17:33 AM PST by Red Badger
The instant online symbol of global support for Paris after last week’s attacks was a roughly rendered peace symbol with an Eiffel Tower in the middle of it.
The French designer Jean Jullien sketched it as soon as he heard the news of the atrocity. He called it “Peace for Paris,†and it immediately became a sensation on social media.
Its success is a sign of the times.
We have become experts at treacly online mourning. We take grotesque atrocities and launder them into trite symbols and slogans that are usually self-congratulatory and, of course, wholly ineffectual.
The 19th-century author William Dean Howells once said, “Yes, what the American public wants is a tragedy with a happy ending.â€
On social media, the happy ending is the widely shared and tweeted image or hashtag.
After the slaughter at the offices of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hedbo earlier this year, it was “Je suis Charlie,†or “I am Charlie.â€
It was a well-intentioned expression of solidarity, so long as you overlooked the absurd presumption of it.
You are Charlie? Oh, OK. Then draw a sketch of Muhammad and post it online. Better yet, do it over and over again, until you get constant threats and your office is firebombed, just as a warm-up.
No, you aren’t Charlie. (For that matter, Charlie isn’t even Charlie anymore — it’s given up on mocking Islam for understandable safety reasons.)
Last year, when the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped 200 schoolgirls, Twitter exploded with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. First lady Michelle Obama held up a sign with the phrase on it. If Boko Haram was shamed by its Twitter feed, it showed no signs of it. The only girls who were brought back escaped on their own. ...
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Here’s one: ACT like sheep, DIE like sheep.
Amen.
And then there was the guy who brought a grand piano out in the streets of Paris and played John Lennon’s Imagine to ease people’s pain.
“The French designer Jean Jullien sketched it as soon as he heard the news of the atrocity. He called it “Peace for Paris” and it immediately became a sensation on social media.”
Oh, how sensational! The morons fall in love with this stuff at a time when they should all be focused on annihilating the enemy.
-— We have become experts at treacly online mourning. -—
Good for the NYP.
Now watch for the hashtag backlash.
First thing these asswipes do is draw peace signs?! So ISIS us supposed to see this and say...” hey, maybe they’re right. Peace is better”!? Crank up “Give Peace a Chance” while you’re at it!
I hate giving props to Rich Lowry, but he earned them with this one. I’ve been feeling the same way...especially about that red white and blue filter people are using on FB. It just seems so trite to me. If you want to do something useful start emailing, mailing and calling your elected officials and demand that they stop all Syrian refugees from coming here.
Should have drawn Mahmoud being screwed by a billy goat while bowing to mecca.
As Rush says, and has said for decades, “With liberals, it’s ‘Style’ over ‘Substance’, always.”....................
Shouldn’t that say, “#BringBackOurFrenchFries”?..............
Yes, even HE gets it. This hashtag crap is just feelgood-ism for the masses...............
Ironic, oui?.............
Muzzy porn?...............
“Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player”..................
“The French designer Jean Jullien sketched it as soon as he heard the news of the atrocity.”
Good grief... It almost seems like he saw this as a resume-building opportunity. Bet he will get invited to so many parties now, and that logo will make him lots of cash.
The one good thing about 9-11 was that we didn’t have any of these social media platforms, so we actually came together as a nation like was done in years past with other horrific events. and we did it in our own ways that were unique to where we lived, but wholly American. There was no damn logo for it. That is why we have never forgotten it. our outpouring actually came from ourselves not through cute drawings and retarded hashtags that compartmentalize things like this into just a cool thing to be into that you can use as digital decoration.
These days people are just competing as to who can out care each other. In one week this will be a memory just like “I am Charlie”.
#uselessSymbolism
It’s a feel good thing. Liberals are all about “feeling” never about “thinking”.
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