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'The dangerous myths about Charlie Hebdo'
A generally excellent Atlantic piece by Jeffrey Golberg. The myths (though there's more in the article than that):
[T]hat Charlie Hebdo is anti-Muslim….
[T]hat anti-Jewish hostility in its pages was forbidden….
[That] Charlie Hebdo is interested in advancing a "narrative" of "white privilege," and therefore specializes in ridiculing powerless people….
[T]hat terrorism is a weapon of the marginalized and the weak….
[T]hat Charlie Hebdo's target was a powerless, disenfranchised minority….
One more myth concerns the way in which the Left understands Islamism….
Check it out.
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