Members of a French Syndicate of reporters protested vehemently, writes the Morandini website, as a humorist mocked Greta Thunberg's Palestine stunt, inverting the words in the expression describing the Vietnamese tragedy of the late 1970s and calling her report "The People Boat". (In French, the English word "People" is used to refer to the upper class gentry, thus the word for weeklies about aristocrats and pop singers and movie stars and such — like, in America, none other than People Magazine — is "les magazines people.")
Among the 11 other militants aboard the sail ship with Greta was the far left LFI member of the European Parliament, Rima Hassan.
On the France Inter radio show (apparently financed by the reporters' Le Parisien newspaper), Sophia Aram referred to the Swedish (non-)teen's latest saga as "Miss Krisprolls" orchestrating the "Wasa for Gaza" operation. (Just in case you don't get the joke, they refer to two types of crusty Swedish bread, typically adored and branded by leftists as some of the best health food available.)
A couple of weeks earlier, Sophia Aram mocked the March for Gaza, Westerners crossing Egypt who shouted Allah Akbar as they were being beaten by Egyptian police (who confiscated all of their passports), "like some Christopher Columbus trying to tame the natives" of America.
Nous sommes en Égypte où trois teubés, deux Marie Coquillette et un Jean Barnabé de la Marche pour Gaza tentent d'amadouer des Égyptiens en jetant du « Allahu Akbar » tel un Christophe Colomb essayant d'apprivoiser l'Autochtone.
The Société des journalistes du Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France (the two outlets that the members work for) went as far as to call the humorist who made the jokes "racist", even though she happens to be Sophia Aram, a woman who is of Moroccan origin.
"Besides the fact that she approaches the Gaza tragedy with a lightness that raises questions" complains the SDJ du Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France, "she crossed a red line."
"Let's imagine for a moment that an author paid by Le Parisien were to nickname a Mexican whose views he doesn't share 'Mister Tacos', a Moroccan 'Mister Couscous', or a Spanish woman 'Miss Paëlla'... the racist nature of the jibes would no longer be in doubt," they claimed.
Actually, as PragerU's Will Witt has demonstrated, the only people who seem to be offended by minority stereotypes are whites — rarely (if ever) the minorities themselves.
Over at CNews, the double standards of leftist journalists, with one of the station's calling for having the right-leaning station's members having their reporters' journalism cards revoked.
In another three-minute stint, Sophia Aram mocks the country's intellectuals, taking as an example Simone de Bouvoir when asked whether she noticed, while as a guest in Beijing (then Peking), any aspect of Mao's cult of personality.
From now on, when reporting on Greta Thunberg, I will refer to her as "Miss Krisprolls". Merci, Sophia Aram.