American Provincial quotes just enough of Michel Hazanavicius ennui inducing essay…

Why do so many young, pink-assed, Nike-wearing French people want to be revolutionaries and fierce defenders of the weakest with a one-dimensional reading of the issue? And why do we want to make Muslims my antagonists here in France, when in fact they’re not? Why did I spend my youth with Arabs, without it being an issue, and now we want it to be more complicated than that?

How can we fail to see that words form ideas, and that after ideas come acts? Why is it so complicated to hate no one and hope that no one hates us? At least to an acceptable extent? Without things getting out of hand? 

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And why do I get the feeling that more and more people have a problem with even talking about the Jewish genocide?

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Why do I get the feeling that a dull force is trying to break the last dam that imposed a ban?

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And why is it that Jews are too often asked to talk about anti-Jewish hatred, when we’re probably not the most representative in the field?

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Why do I so often wish I weren’t Jewish so that I could defend them without my word being automatically nullified? And why are we all so silent? Are we really sure that our silence will be louder than their screams?

Editor: Michel Hazanavicius is not François Truffaut!

American Provincial