After all of Gawker's writing about last week's fatal shooting at Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly apparently targeted by extremists over its depictions of the prophet Muhammad, a French Gawker media reader named Flavien Vidal contacted me.

"I'm not a journalist, but I enjoy writing once in a while, mostly for Opposite Lock which sometimes get published on Jalopnik," he wrote "I wanted to react and give my answer to the accusations of racism that are facing Charlie Hebdo on Gawker and explain why I feel that what you wrote on the subject is very, very wrong."

Flavien's post is below.