Benjamin Sire: "Christine, Rahim, and the identity trap"

Benjamin Sire is a composer and journalist.

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Queen Christine would sometimes deserve to devote herself more to her studio work and her choreographies than to small political-identity outings on social networks, of which she is fond.

That said, even when it comes to notes, between two genuine successes, she also commonly takes her feet in the carpet, which should invite more discretion, if we refer to some questionable occasions. - not all of them - and to accusations of plagiarism sometimes tainting his prolific career.

In short, Christine is like me, she opens it a lot outside of her artistic activity, except that I know more success by opening it than by composing, to its opposite, and I wonder if I would not prefer let it be the other way around.

In short, Christine has struck again and I open it, on a subject which, if it was not symptomatic of the identity era we are going through, would not even deserve a line.

Intersectionality is based on an impossible search for moral purity, which will always see some of its activists being challenged by others who consider themselves purer than them.

Benjamin Sire

What is it about ? Christine who is not called Christine, but Héloïse, not Héloïse, but Chris, not Chris, but Rahim, not Rahim, but “. »Has a multiple identity, fluid, degenerate, non-binary, very fashionable, which she wishes to keep us regularly informed of fluctuations. Whenever the fluidity of the one that, suddenly, I don't know how to name, plays a trick on her, paf, she changes her surname and hastens to communicate it to her fans, to the networks and to all the cream of the crop. of the intersectional sphere, where part of the LGBT community (now called 2ELGBTQQIA +, according to Justin Trudeau), decolonial activists, Islamist feminists and other fans of oxymorons are in disorder.

And it turns out that this Tuesday, October 12 was one of those days when, who you know, needed to tell us about her new desire, seeing her choose the first name of Rahim ... Patatras, but we will come back to that later.

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Rahim? Why not, especially since this choice presents here a double meaning which finds its echo in the political news and the omnipresent quasi-campaign of Eric Zemmour. On the one hand, it is a question of defending non-binary people of

(according to this unbearable expression which calls into question the biological evidence of the non-existence of races), on the other of responding to the probable future candidate as to his crusade - which I personally consider absurd, having myself given a Slavic first name to my daughter in memory of a part of my origins - against any nomination of a child not espousing the canons of the Christian calendar.

Rahim, why not?

Except ... patatras, again.

To imagine that such an act would pass cream was without counting on the obvious, permanent and definitive trap which intersectionality reveals.

Pretending to make quite incompatible struggles march in unison, on the pretext of defending all the oppressed and victims of domination with one voice, it is founded on an impossible search for moral purity, which will always see some of its activists being challenged by others who consider themselves purer than them.

Beyond the consummate ridiculousness of the situation, such an example is much less funny than it seems.

Benjamin Sire

C'est ce qui n'a pas manqué de se produire une fois de plus. Pensant gagner des points de progressisme à peu de frais, la pauvre personne qui menstrue (autre nom en vogue dans la sphère citée plus haut), s'est fait littéralement bâcher par ses ami.e.s plus pur.e.s qu'iel, qui ont considéré que l'usage du prénom Rahim, signifiant «compatissant» en arabe, était un exemple typique d'appropriation culturelle, mais aussi de transracialisme, c’est-à-dire (pour les non intitié.e.s) de préhension d'une identité raciale autre que celle que l'on porte à la naissance. Traînée dans la boue en quelques minutes et se battant la coulpe intersectionnelle, la personne dont je parle, s'est ravisée à une vitesse stratosphérique, décidant de se nommer « . ». Oui, « point ».

Beyond the consummate ridiculousness of the situation, such an example is much less funny than it seems. That's why he deserves the lines you read. In addition to highlighting the limit very quickly reached by the convergence of struggles, it also sheds light on the denial of certain facts and behaviors arising from the hierarchy of dominations which organize this pseudo-convergence when it is served with

sauce

.

And that brings us back, for example, to the homophobic aggression that occurred a few days ago in Montgeron, in Essonne.

This scene of violence, filmed and published on social networks, is added to the long list of this type of news item multiplying in the cities where radical Islam, so dear to intersectionals, like the virilism of racialized little bosses too atheists than businessman, does not tolerate the possibility of homosexuality.

This in no way means, however, that homophobia is not expressed in many other cultural and geographic environments.

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However, what was the comment of Arnaud Boisseau, intersectional spokesperson for “Stop homophobie” on this subject? “

”, even though the facts insist the opposite. As was to be expected, the brave Boisseau was immediately followed in the demining operation by the inescapable Aurélien Taché, who let loose in the trash of news represented by Cyril Hanouna's set: "

”.

If, indeed, homophobia can be found everywhere, this denial expressed with conviction by Boisseau and Taché has no other origin than the fear of being treated as racists by denouncing homophobia reigning in neighborhoods, part of which is consequent of the population is

. And this, quite simply because in the hierarchy of norms and privileges

, the color of skin and the confession take precedence over sexual orientation, which itself takes precedence over gender, which itself sees its part. feminine take the upper hand over the masculine part, itself being able to be put in difficulty by the non-binarity ... Do you still follow me? Well. Let's resume.

All this is absurd but testifies to the state into which the identity era can plunge certain lost minds, just as much as it can shake entire sections of our society.

Benjamin Sire

It is thus in this same trap, which has everything of a dead end, that this brave Héloïse, Christine, Chris, Rahim, "Point" fell head first, participating in spite of herself in continuing the slow discrediting of a current of identity. to which it belongs. However, she is lagging behind the non-binary singer / songwriter (like the new Superman, once a symbol of intergalactic virility), Demi Lovato, who, recently, during a chat about our alien friends, told us about it. warned against the use of this term to designate the little green men (or women) (or of any other color), considered undoubtedly pejorative and discriminating in space.

I know, all this is absurd, but testifies to the state in which the identity era can plunge certain lost minds, as well as to waver entire sections of our society, by the multiple ostracisms it produces under the guise of " progressivism ”. It is also so, as Guillaume Erner reminded us yesterday in his column devoted to the anecdotal change of name of the artist with the short hair that I mention in this article, of the predominance of

which want that "

”, as the American researcher Lilliana Mason argues,and which also produces unmanageable mental collisions for its supporters.

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However, it is within this framework of

that the first name of Rahim was chosen by Christine, allowing her to enclose in five letters, both her non-binarity, an ethnic minority and the reference to a supposed religion, the three being supposed to suffer joint oppressions to be denounced. So to call oneself Rahim consists in inscribing one's identity within the framework of a political fight, clearly of the left and intersectional, indicating in hollow with vindictiveness those who do not marry him and allowing his (her) bearer (r) to to be part of a community of "good". Unfortunately, however, as we have seen, such an approach is doomed to failure by the incompatibility of the demands it makes.

At the end of this article, I cannot resist the irony of recalling, that not really binary, me either, I have also just changed my name to continue my little musical path, having swapped the Sire for E-Riser, not to testify to a political identity, but to mark the purely electronic turn taken by my new album, Electronica Cinematic, which will be released in January.

This promotional moment is not so off topic, because Queen Christine's gesture should not be taken away from some marketing ulterior motives, in the spirit of the maxim attributed to former journalist Léon Zitrone: "

"

In short, Rahim, "Point" final ...