This article examines the 2014 case of French comedian Dieudonne and his purported incitement to hatred through his comedy act at the time, which hit national headlines and danced along the line of acceptable speech and making fun of the Holocaust. At the same time, Dieudonne’s comedy appealed to a faction of French society that felt relegated and ignored by the French elite, a sentiment that was furthered by a clash between one religious group that has legal protections in place to protect it from Holocaust denial, versus another group that does not have similar protections in place for Islamophobic acts. This case study demonstrates how Dieudonne tapped into these sensitive areas of cultural life by engaging the communicative genres of humour and satire to draw attention to and toy with making fun of the Holocaust, though his comedy act, Le Mur (The Wall), a silly song about the Holocaust, and an arm gesture called the ‘quenelle’. Using a textual thematic analysis of online newspaper articles collected at the time from Le Figaro and Le Monde, as well as transcripts from ten in-person, semi-structured interviews conducted in Paris with activists, journalists, politicians, a lawyer, and a comedian, what the findings point to is that while Dieudonne appealed to a disenfranchised audience as a ‘provocateur’, he also highlighted how key factions of French society are struggling with inclusivity and a lack of social cohesion in a political context where laicite, the separation of religious life and political life, is sacrosanct.

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考虑族裔张力：法国喜剧演员Dieudonné的症状案例

本文研究了2014年法国喜剧演员Dieudonne一案，并通过当时的喜剧行为煽动了仇恨，当时他的喜剧行为举世瞩目，并在可以接受的演讲和取笑大屠杀的基础上跳动。同时，迪乌多纳的喜剧吸引了法国社会一个被法国精英贬低和忽视的派系，这一观点由于具有法律保护以保护其免受大屠杀否认的一个宗教团体之间的冲突而进一步加剧。另一个没有针对伊斯兰行为的类似保护措施的团体。本案例研究展示了Dieudonne如何通过幽默和讽刺的交流体裁来吸引文化娱乐的这些敏感领域，以引起人们的注意并取笑大屠杀，尽管他的喜剧表演是，Le Mur（The Wall），一首关于大屠杀的愚蠢歌曲，手臂手势称为“ quenelle”。使用对当时从《费加罗报》和《世界报》收集的在线报纸文章的文字主题分析，以及在巴黎与活动家，新闻工作者，政治人物，律师和喜剧演员进行的十次面对面，半结构化访谈的笔录，研究结果表明，虽然迪乌多纳（Dieudonne）呼吁被剥夺权利的听众作为“亵渎者”，但他也强调了法国社会的主要派系在政治环境中如何挣扎于包容性和缺乏社会凝聚力，在这种情况下，红土，宗教生活和政治生活，是神圣不可侵犯的。