There’s a specific French politician move that deserves its own category in the history of audacity.
The move is: standing in front of cameras, in a country built substantially on Algerian oil and labor, defended by Senegalese soldiers, supplied by Ivorian cocoa, Nigerien uranium, and Malian gold, a country whose postwar reconstruction was funded in part by the CFA franc system that still extracts from 14 African countries today...
And saying, with genuine conviction, that the problem with France is that it has given too much.
That it has been too generous.
That the people arriving from its former colonies are taking advantage of "French goodness."
The specific relationship between what France took and what France now owes is not part of this politician’s presentation.
It is never part of the presentation.
Because the presentation only works if the history is invisible.
And making the history invisible is, at this point, also a French specialty.
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
― Oscar Wilde
There were no riots before Muslims came to France, say morons who never heard of the French Revolution, 1968 or read a single book on their entire racist and pathetic lives.
French schoolchildren have been treated like enemies to be crushed – for telling the truth - To protest against shameful conditions in schools is entirely legitimate. The government’s response is not. My latest for The Guardian
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Jag har sagt det förut och säger det igen; många Parisare, speciellt unga, har inte råd med skit inne i stan. Den caterar till rika turister. Lönernarna är hyfsat låga, hyror a svinhöga och äter du ute på ett coolt ställe en kväll så äter du hemma resten av månaden.
Det här är en studie som är offentlig. Vilken idiot som helst kan läsa den, när som helst och förstå att argumentet "invandrare begår mer brott" är helt jävla FEL.
"Studiens övriga underlag kan till viss del
hjälpa till att förklara dessa skillnader, men det går inte att utesluta att de också beror på diskriminerande etnisk profilering."