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France rejects America's race theory.

Right, because France is oh so well known for their high level of political and social stability

If French society collapses it will be entirely their own doing, I assure you.
Internal civil unrest brings about riots. Much unrest is race related.
 
Slavery did not come to an end with the Civil War. It just changed forms.
Social media cooperating with government to control speech, media, freedom. fascism.
 
Internal civil unrest brings about riots. Much unrest is race related.
France already has plenty of their own homegrown racial tensions. This is nothing but a cheap attempt to pass the blame and deny responsibility for problems that are entirely their own making.
 
France already has plenty of their own homegrown racial tensions. This is nothing but a cheap attempt to pass the blame and deny responsibility for problems that are solely their own making.
Those same social forces create chaos right here at home. Biden is fully onboard with it.
 
Social media cooperating with government to control speech, media, freedom. fascism.

Try for-profit prisons. Who forces you to be on social media? Who is controlling your speech?
 
Just reading the links that the author provided, it seems like some bad faith accounting is going on. Can you find the literal quote he is referring to Macron and criticizing American wokeism? Macrons entire speech is about how France needs to unify all of its citizens and work to further assimilate Muslim populations in order to combat Islamic extremism.

Doesn’t pass the smell test but I admit I may be missing something. Just follow the links given in the article, even the quote attributed to Macron is abridged and seems to lack context.
 
Try for-profit prisons. Who forces you to be on social media? Who is controlling your speech?
democrats are already talking about "truth commissions & reality czars" "Truth & reconciliation" welcome back to the Soviet Union.

 
democrats are already talking about "truth commissions & reality czars" welcome back to the Soviet Union.
LAW AND ORDER
 
Amazing the 2016 GOP convention was all about law and order and locking up Hillary. Is it easy to pretend that never happened
 
When did the Soviet Union have a “truth and reconciliation” commission?
The Soviet Union was a brutal regime. Good thing it's been history for nearly 30 years.

katie Couric stating Republicans. need to be deprogrammed. Good democrat she is.
 
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The Soviet Union was a brutal regime. Good thing it's been history for nearly 30 years.

katie Couric stating Republicans. need to be deprogrammed. Good democrat she is.

So I ask again, when did the Soviets have a truth and reconciliation commission?
 
So I ask again, when did the Soviets have a truth and reconciliation commission?
Who said they did? When was the Soviet Union truly free speech? Not sure Biden believes in it either.
 
Who said they did? When was the Soviet Union truly free speech? Not sure Biden believes in it either.

So why did you say having a truth and reconciliation commission is like bringing back the Soviet Union when the Soviets never had one?

Augusto Pinochet’s capitalist utopia didn’t have free speech either. Yet Conservatives on here wish Trump would be America’s Pinochet.
 
The threat? “Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States,’’ said President Emmanuel Macron.
French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society. “There’s a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities,’’ warned Mr. Macron’s education minister.
Emboldened by these comments, prominent intellectuals have banded together against what they regard as contamination by the out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture.

Slavery did not come to an end with the Civil War. It just changed forms.
So the 13, 14, 15 amendments were useless?
 

In terms of totally eliminating slavery, yes. The weasel words (“except as punishment for a crime”) has allowed legal slavery to exist since the end of the Civil War. Have you ever considered why former slaves made up the vast majority of people in prison in the South post-war? Or the practice of leasing prisoners to work on private property?

Even today, we have corporations turning massive profits on the backs of slaves.
 
You put yourself in the penal system don't expect a Holiday Inn. How many are near slaves to the government, needing govt assistance to survive? The govt just forcefully shut down tens of thousands of businesses, just shut down pipeline operations.
 

I don't think you understand that Fench view on race. They don't recognize race. It's illegal to collect racial data. How many Black people or Muslims or Jews live in France? Who knows? It's illegal to collect that data.

Do you know you're not allowed to wear a crucifix chain or yarmulke in French schools?
 
Why were these remarks made by high French officials? They must think we have gone off the rails with race theory. They are correct.

We are not free to do many things once considered normal. Offending feelings , real or imagined, rules the day.
 

Why didn’t you respond to my post? What remarks are you talking about? What did Macron say, exactly?
 
Maybe don't take advice from the French when it comes to successful paths to multiculturalism.
 
Why didn’t you respond to my post? What remarks are you talking about? What did Macron say, exactly?
Read the articles, decide for yourself what the message is. France had Le Pen in the race against Macron so issues of immigration and nationalism are important to many.
 
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I'm not sure what any country could actually do about any of this since most of the ideas are spread outside of just academia. Unless France and other countries decide to block out social media posts and news from the US conveying the ideas in question, there's not much to do other than let the people in these respective countries sort out what makes sense to them from an ideologically.
 
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