{"id":37922,"date":"2025-06-11T14:43:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/En-RDC-faute-de-debattre-l-on-insulte-37922\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:42:47","slug":"En-RDC-faute-de-debattre-l-on-insulte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/En-RDC-faute-de-debattre-l-on-insulte\/","title":{"rendered":"En RDC faute de d\u00e9battre l\u2019on insulte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9laissant les hautes sph\u00e8res du d\u00e9bat d\u2019id\u00e9es, il s\u2019adonne d\u00e9sormais \u00e0 une entreprise syst\u00e9matique de d\u00e9nigrement, travestissant la critique en loyalisme feint, usurpant la posture du d\u00e9fenseur du Chef de l\u2019\u00c9tat, lequel, h\u00e9las, ne d\u00e9daigne pas de se complaire lui-m\u00eame dans cette m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9 orchestr\u00e9e. Il s&#8217;agit l\u00e0 de l\u2019arme des faibles, de ceux que l\u2019intelligence rebute et que la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 effraie.<\/p>\n<p>Lorsqu\u2019on ne dispose d\u2019aucun argument, lorsqu\u2019on ne ma\u00eetrise ni les fondements \u00e9thiques du d\u00e9bat ni les exigences d\u00e9ontologiques de l\u2019engagement public, il ne reste que les raccourcis des m\u00e9diocres : l\u2019injure, l\u2019attaque ad hominem, la menace. <\/p>\n<p>Incapables de contester les id\u00e9es, ils visent les personnes. Incapables de r\u00e9futer la pens\u00e9e, ils salissent la r\u00e9putation: cette strat\u00e9gie perverse qui consiste \u00e0 jeter l\u2019opprobre sur autrui par des accusations infond\u00e9es, des all\u00e9gations mensong\u00e8res, ou des insinuations malveillantes.<\/p>\n<p>Cette sempiternelle tentative d\u2019humiliation identitaire, ressass\u00e9e avec une constance navrante, n\u2019est rien d\u2019autre qu\u2019une litanie \u00e9cul\u00e9e, un refrain us\u00e9 jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la corde par ceux qui, faute d\u2019arguments valables, s\u2019enfoncent dans les ab\u00eemes de la bassesse verbale. <\/p>\n<p>L\u2019obsession de r\u00e9duire l\u2019identit\u00e9 d\u2019un individu \u00e0 une assignation ethnique pr\u00e9sum\u00e9e trahit moins une hostilit\u00e9 r\u00e9elle qu\u2019une pauvret\u00e9 intellectuelle crasse. A force d\u2019\u00eatre r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9e, cette antienne perd jusqu\u2019\u00e0 son venin : elle devient un disque ray\u00e9, d\u00e9saccord\u00e9, ridicule dans sa pr\u00e9visibilit\u00e9, path\u00e9tique dans sa pr\u00e9tention \u00e0 nuire. <\/p>\n<p>Qu\u2019on se le dise : l\u2019injure identitaire, lorsqu\u2019elle est mille fois servie, ne blesse plus, elle r\u00e9v\u00e8le, chez celui qui la prof\u00e8re, le vide sid\u00e9ral de la pens\u00e9e, l\u2019incapacit\u00e9 chronique \u00e0 \u00e9lever le d\u00e9bat, et la volont\u00e9 d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9e de frapper l\u00e0 o\u00f9 l\u2019on croit que l\u2019ego vacille. Mais le mien ne vacille pas. Que l\u2019on trouve donc autre chose. Car ici, ni la honte ni la peur ne trouvent asile.<\/p>\n<p>Il semble d\u00e9sormais illusoire, voire presque h\u00e9ro\u00efque, de croire encore en la possibilit\u00e9 d\u2019un d\u00e9bat digne de ce nom, fond\u00e9 sur l\u2019\u00e9change argument\u00e9, la confrontation loyale des id\u00e9es et le respect mutuel des intelligences. <\/p>\n<p>Les joutes politiques, au lieu de tendre vers l\u2019\u00e9l\u00e9vation, se r\u00e9duisent trop souvent \u00e0 des pugilats st\u00e9riles, livr\u00e9s au vacarme de l\u2019invective et aux affres de l\u2019ego bless\u00e9. Et pourtant, l\u2019histoire, silencieuse mais vigilante, observe. <\/p>\n<p>Les congolais, bien qu\u2019\u00e9prouv\u00e9s, discernent. Et la post\u00e9rit\u00e9, intransigeante, tranchera. Elle ne retiendra ni les cris ni les insultes, ni les petites l\u00e2chet\u00e9s ni les grandes l\u00e2mes de l\u2019orgueil : elle retiendra les id\u00e9es, les visions port\u00e9es dans l\u2019adversit\u00e9, les engagements assum\u00e9s sans tapage. <\/p>\n<p>C\u2019est l\u00e0 que r\u00e9side le v\u00e9ritable legs politique dans la clart\u00e9 de la pens\u00e9e et la noblesse du combat, non dans le tumulte des passions\u00a0\u00e9ph\u00e9m\u00e8res.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-62178 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/jpb.jpg\" alt=\"Jean-Pierre Bemba, aujourd\u2019hui ministre des Transports apr\u00e8s un \u00e9chec flagrant comme ministre de la D\u00e9fense, s\u2019est visiblement reconverti en calomniateur public\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Pierre Bemba, aujourd\u2019hui ministre des Transports apr\u00e8s avoir lamentablement failli dans ses fonctions de ministre de la D\u00e9fense, s\u2019est semble-t-il d\u00e9couvert une nouvelle vocation : celle, bien mis\u00e9rable, de pourfendeur public par calomnie. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000062177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7544],"tags":[7605],"byline":[9102],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique","tag-homenews","byline-tite-gatabazi"],"bylines":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"contributors":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"featured_image":{"id":4000062177,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jpb_cp.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jpb_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jpb_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jpb_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jpb_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jpb_cp.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000062177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37922"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37922"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}