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France's hypocrisy about terrorism

The **** ?
 
Ganapathy said:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sétif_and_Guelma_massacre

I am not justifying the recent attacks in Nice in any way, shape, or form. However, the French government is nothing but hypocritical here.

In 1945, white French colonists in Algeria murdered between 1,200 and 45,000 Muslim Algerians of color. Even up to this day, there has been only one halfhearted apology from the French government. This massacre is glossed over schools. There is not a national day of mourning or repentance. It's almost as if the. Lives of thousands of people of color meant nothing at all.

Now, whenever there is a terrorist attack against white Frenchmen, the government goes ape crazy. There are moments of silence, singing of the national anthem, calls for war, racist screeds by do nazis like Marine Le Pen to commit genocide against people of color. The entire western world, too expresses their sympathies to France. Where were those condolences to the families of 45,000 Algerians killed by white French Christians?

A cartoon by the Pulitzer award winning Pat Bagley sums up this phenomenon:

Bagley Cartoon: Some Lives Matter More | The Salt Lake Tribune

I know that the topic of this cartoon is about the Brussels attacks, but the message is the same for these current attacks in Nice.
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So you are blaming current French citizens for things the French govt and military did over a generation ago?

How far back do we go to blame ancestors for wrong things done? How about the Algerians? Did that govt ever do anything wrong? Can we go far back in its history and blame living citizens for things the Algerian military did in the past? Can we blame living Algerians for the Jewish people their ancestors killed just because they were Jewish?

Several groups have conquered Algeria, including Spain and the Ottomans. A lot of people get killed in a takeover, and in the resistance that follows.

Of course France doesn't have a day of mourning for the Algerians, just as Germany doesn't have a national day of mourning for the Jews, and America doesn't have a national day of mourning for the Native Americans, and Algeria doesn't have a day of mourning for the Jews it killed in a Jewish killing spree in its past.

Thing is, the Jews don't go killing innocent citizens of various countries because the prior governments and citizens did terrible things to Jews. Notice the difference between evil animals who kill innocent people, and others who don't do such things?

When you start rehashing history, it gets convoluted and messy. But in the end, terrorism is killing innocent people who have done you no harm. And that's what really matters.
 
Jack Hays said:
Land belongs to whoever holds it. No country on Earth is today in the hands of its original inhabitants.
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And that will be the ones with the most wisdom because of their better inventions that makes them stronger
 
Socrates1 said:
Another F ail .
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No, the actual F ail is your claim that just because one socialist has an opinion, that opinion means that everyone who is socialist has that opinion.
 
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