{"id":19411,"date":"2015-01-16T19:36:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T00:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19411"},"modified":"2015-01-16T19:36:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T00:36:47","slug":"josh-healey-i-will-grieve-i-will-laugh-but-i-am-not-charlie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/01\/16\/josh-healey-i-will-grieve-i-will-laugh-but-i-am-not-charlie\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Healey: I Will Grieve. I Will Laugh. But I Am Not Charlie."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Common Dreams<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Common Dreams article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2015\/01\/13\/i-will-grieve-i-will-laugh-i-am-not-charlie\" target=\"_blank\">I Will Grieve. I Will Laugh. But I Am Not Charlie<\/a> by Josh Healey. This article beautifully puts into words why I have felt some unease about the Euro\/American support for <em>Charlie Hebdo<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>This excerpt about Molly Ivins captures the way I think about satire.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the late great Molly Ivins said, \u201cSatire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel &#8212; it&#8217;s vulgar.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a good description of the kind of satire I like and the kind that I can easily live without. For instance, this is why I preferred David Letterman instead of Jay Leno.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Healey had a pithy summary point of his own.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0I love free speech as much as anyone, but I can separate the right of people to have free speech with my support for their actual speech. When the ACLU supported the right of neo-Nazis to march through the suburban shtetl of Skokie, IL, they didn&#8217;t go around saying #IAmHitler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really know why Josh Healey&#8217;s explanation should come as a surprise to anyone.\u00a0 There can&#8217;t be very many people who are unfamiliar with the following quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See two Wikipedia articles for the source of the quote, <a title=\"Wikipedia article\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall\" target=\"_blank\">Evelyn Beatrice Hall<\/a> and <a title=\"Wikipedia article\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voltaire\" target=\"_blank\">Voltaire<\/a>.\u00a0 Hint: If you believe Wikipedia on this subject, the phrase was not coined by Voltaire.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chris Spear for <a title=\"Comment in Facebook post\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nadine.bloch.99\/posts\/10152465112661618?comment_id=10152467410366618&amp;offset=0&amp;total_comments=14\" target=\"_blank\">commenting on this article on a Facebook post<\/a>. His comment is what brought this article to my attention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Dreams has the article I Will Grieve. I Will Laugh. But I Am Not Charlie by Josh Healey. This article beautifully puts into words why I have felt some unease about the Euro\/American support for Charlie Hebdo magazine. This excerpt about Molly Ivins captures the way I think about satire. As the late great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19412,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19411\/revisions\/19412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}