You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life - Albert Camus
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. There is nothing Europeans love more than a self-hating American.
She was the young American with blond hair whose death became an unlikely but powerful political symbol for the troubles of Palestine.
Now Rachel Corrie, crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip two years ago, has caught the imagination of a fresh audience as her life story emerges as one of the most sought-after theatre tickets in the country.
The Royal Court in London announced yesterday that My Name is Rachel Corrie had become one the fastest sell-outs in its 50-year history. Tickets for the play’s 24 performances sold out in less than two days, the majority of them bought by one of the youngest audiences the theatre can recall. Actor and director Alan Rickman, whose idea it was to transform Corrie’s life into drama, is already looking at taking the play to the US where, unlike in Europe, the 23-year-old’s death has generated modest media coverage.
Why should it generate more coverage? This is a girl who lay down in front of a bulldozer and got crushed to death. While in enlightened Europe this elevates someone to the status of a political martyr, here in America we look at people like that as “fucking morons.” So, short of news articles about what a dumbass she was, why is her death really news?
In Britain in particular, the woman from Olympia, Washington, has become an aspirational figure for young people often seen as apathetic and uninterested in international issues.
Katharine Viner, editor of the Guardian Weekend magazine, co-edited Corrie’s writings with Rickman. The diaries form the entire script. Viner said: ‘What’s been so exciting is how young people have been responding to it. It’s not just that they are moved by Rachel’s death, but also that they are inspired by her words and actions, that she found a way to be political in a depoliticised age.’
Let us not forget that Rachel Corrie was an America-hating supporter of Islamist terorrist groups. Here’s the infamous picure of America’s sweetheart, dressed up like a Muslim woman, showing a group of Palestinian children the proper way to burn the American flag. And this is what it means to be “political,” I guess.
To recap, a girl who hates America, hates Israel, and supports terrorist organizations, lays down in front of a bulldozer and gets crushed. I’m shocked, shocked that this girl isn’t held up as a shining example here in America. Let me tell you something, Europe. Except in the few leftist enclaves of America whose views closely parrot your own, this idiot is held in the highest levels of contempt. If I had been standing there watching her be crushed I would have laughed my ass off at her stupidity. There would be a greater chance for peace in the Middle East if hate-filled vermin like Rachel Corrie would end their support of terrorist groups. I won’t be shedding a tear over her death.
Update: Little Green Footballs covers the “forgoten Rachels.”
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Lee on 04/25/05 at 11:22 AM (
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I can find dozens of stupid little twats just like her around this town.