Social Media Sees Some Laughing and Mocking Notre-Dame Fire by Chris Tomlinson for Breitbart
Social media has seen a variety of reactions following the tragic fire at Paris’ iconic Notre-Dame cathedral Monday, but some users chose to mock and laugh at those expressing sorrow.
Several accounts on Twitter expressed mockery over the loss of the 850 plus year-old cathedral, which has become an icon of the city of Paris since the Medieval era.
Twitter user @SarahSahim, a writer for Rolling Stone magazine, Teen Vogue and the Independent newspaper wrote, “Notre-Dame burning is cosmic karma for all the historical sites and artefacts France destroyed and stole when being colonialist scum.”
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Another Twitter user, @gaygadott called the fire, “the most aesthetically pleasing visually (sic) I’ve ever seen,” while the account for a U.S.-based far-left pro-Palestinian publication called the Jewish Worker said, “Genuinely awful but if you mourn for this one building and not, say, the entirety of Syria, your white supremacy is showing.”
Genuinely awful but if you mourn for this one building and not, say, the entirety of Syria, your white supremacy is showing. https://t.co/5T916AVkqG
— The Jewish Worker (@JewishWorker) April 15, 2019
On French social media, there were also mocking reactions to the tragedy including well over a thousand Facebook users who used the laughing emoji reaction to a Facebook live stream about the fire.
Et devinez qui se réjouit de l’incendie de #NotreDamedeParis…. 😡 pic.twitter.com/XG6pu3VqpC
— Damien Rieu (@DamienRieu) April 15, 2019
Others on French social media attempted to link today’s events to a tweet, written prior to the fire, by a French teen named Hugo who mocked the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
Hugo had received a number of death threats as a result of his tweet, primarily from Muslims.
The teen later apologised saying, “I never wanted to offend anyone in this tweet to stop wanting violence for nothing, there is much worse in this world and on Twitter.”
