Meet the New Boss

Griff · 07-31-2010, 08:39 AM

France appears to be headed down a familiar path. I think this stuff happens because we don't take honest hard looks at history preferring to label a Hitler or a Mussolini as a mad man rather than recognizing the economic and social pressures that lead to right wing popular movements.

July 31, 2010
Liberté, égalité, fraternité in France? Not!
Ethel C. Fenig
Apparently that liberté, égalité, fraternité thing isn't working out too well in France. Unassimilated immigrants. Illegal immigrants. This is thought to cause problems. Crime. Riots. Differences. Mostly blamed on/committed by unassimilated, illegal immigrants. As a result French President Nicholas Sarkozy is threatening to rip France's national polity into shreds by specifically singling out and punishing some (deemed) non French segments of the population with more severe punishment than those (deemed) French who commit the same crime.

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The Roma are also known as gypsies. They're a "problem." Reminiscent of France's Jewish "problem." And its North African "problem;" citizens from France's imperialist past who refuse to assimilate into France.

During World War ll the French obediently turned over its Jews and Gypsies to the German occupiers, usually co-operating with them to round them up. Most of the Jews and Gypsies were ultimately slaughtered.

Profiling? Racism? The French?

xoxoxoBruce · 07-31-2010, 12:57 PM

When don't want to, can't, or not allowed to, assimilate, they end up congregating in what are, or become, slums. Slums breed crime.
It behooves the nation to assimilate them, and limit the influx to the rate they can be assimilated.

07-31-2010, 08:39 AM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Meet the New Boss France appears to be headed down a familiar path. I think this stuff happens because we don't take honest hard looks at history preferring to label a Hitler or a Mussolini as a mad man rather than recognizing the economic and social pressures that lead to right wing popular movements. July 31, 2010 Liberté, égalité, fraternité in France? Not! Ethel C. Fenig Apparently that liberté, égalité, fraternité thing isn't working out too well in France. Unassimilated immigrants. Illegal immigrants. This is thought to cause problems. Crime. Riots. Differences. Mostly blamed on/committed by unassimilated, illegal immigrants. As a result French President Nicholas Sarkozy is threatening to rip France's national polity into shreds by specifically singling out and punishing some (deemed) non French segments of the population with more severe punishment than those (deemed) French who commit the same crime. snip The Roma are also known as gypsies. They're a "problem." Reminiscent of France's Jewish "problem." And its North African "problem;" citizens from France's imperialist past who refuse to assimilate into France. During World War ll the French obediently turned over its Jews and Gypsies to the German occupiers, usually co-operating with them to round them up. Most of the Jews and Gypsies were ultimately slaughtered. Profiling? Racism? The French? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis Last edited by Griff; 07-31-2010 at 08:42 AM. Reason: oopsie

07-31-2010, 12:57 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	When don't want to, can't, or not allowed to, assimilate, they end up congregating in what are, or become, slums. Slums breed crime. It behooves the nation to assimilate them, and limit the influx to the rate they can be assimilated. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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