{"id":18178,"date":"2019-11-28T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T09:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirkvanbabylon.com\/?p=18178"},"modified":"2026-09-13T09:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T07:16:38","slug":"a-bas-saint-nicolas-et-zwarte-piet-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirkvanbabylon.com\/fr\/essais\/a-bas-saint-nicolas-et-zwarte-piet-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c0 bas Saint-Nicolas et Zwarte Piet : introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maintenant que la discussion annuelle autour de la probl\u00e9matique de Zwarte Piet reprend de plus belle, je vais moi aussi faire conna\u00eetre mon point de vue : il s\u2019agit d\u2019un spectacle r\u00e9pugnant, \u00e9c\u0153urant et naus\u00e9abond, dans lequel des enfants sont massivement expos\u00e9s \u00e0 un personnage douteux affubl\u00e9 d\u2019un costume \u00e9piscopal d\u00e9suet, avec un champignon entre les jambes et un Zwarte Piet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ou plusieurs Zwarte Piet. Tr\u00eave de plaisanterie, Zwarte Piet est de loin le plus sympathique des deux, mais cela n\u2019emp\u00eache pas qu\u2019il s\u2019agit d\u2019un serviteur v\u00eatu comme un esclave, d\u2019un Blanc qui se peint le visage en noir et se d\u00e9guise en caricature du Noir, pour ne pas employer le mot. Cela est blessant pour un nombre n\u00e9gligeable de nos concitoyens de couleur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S\u2019ils se sentent bless\u00e9s et humili\u00e9s, il faut en tenir compte dans le d\u00e9bat. On ne peut plus le dire aujourd\u2019hui, car d\u00e8s que vous le faites, une temp\u00eate se l\u00e8ve sur les r\u00e9seaux sociaux et vous \u00eates vou\u00e9 aux g\u00e9monies et hu\u00e9. Apparemment, d\u2019autres personnes se sentent alors offens\u00e9es, celles qui veulent prendre la d\u00e9fense de Zwarte Piet. Sans doute parce qu\u2019elles ont avec lui un lien sentimental, ou simplement par esprit de provocation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ces gens-l\u00e0 semblent entrer dans une col\u00e8re noire, si l\u2019on en juge par le ton des publications Facebook consacr\u00e9es \u00e0 la question. Pourtant, je ne cacherai pas ici que j\u2019en ai assez du bon saint homme. Cette ic\u00f4ne commerciale baroque martyrise, des semaines avant le six d\u00e9cembre, jour de sa f\u00eate, les rues commer\u00e7antes, les m\u00e9dias et Internet, et pour ma part, il serait temps que cela cesse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saint-Nicolas est une figure embl\u00e9matique et r\u00e9voltante de la fr\u00e9n\u00e9sie consum\u00e9riste sans limites, un jouet docile entre les mains d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eats commerciaux gigantesques et le champion incontest\u00e9 de l\u2019in\u00e9galit\u00e9, puisqu\u2019il donne davantage aux enfants riches qu\u2019aux enfants pauvres. Toute son imagerie est fauss\u00e9e. Nous voyons un vieillard m\u00e2le et barbu v\u00eatu en femme, coiff\u00e9 d\u2019une mitre et muni d\u2019une crosse. Tout cela est \u00e9minemment symbolique.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cette tenue grotesque est celle d\u2019un \u00e9v\u00eaque tel que nous le connaissons depuis la Contre-R\u00e9forme. Par ce terme, nous d\u00e9signons une p\u00e9riode de l\u2019histoire du monde qui commence, grosso modo, dans la seconde moiti\u00e9 du XVIe si\u00e8cle.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintenant que la discussion annuelle autour de la probl\u00e9matique de Zwarte Piet reprend de plus belle, je vais moi aussi faire conna\u00eetre mon point <a href=\"https:\/\/dirkvanbabylon.com\/fr\/essais\/a-bas-saint-nicolas-et-zwarte-piet-introduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[351],"class_list":["post-18178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essais","tag-dirk-van-babylon","authors-dirk-van-babylon"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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