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Thread: I see Macron's a racist now.

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    I see Macron's a racist now.

    That little lefty love-in didn't last long, did it?

    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-pretence-over

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    That little lefty love-in didn't last long, did it?

    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-pretence-over
    Yes, even while the Donald was hitting his own recent Big Speech Challenge for six. It's a funny world, ain't it.
    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    That little lefty love-in didn't last long, did it?

    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-pretence-over
    You really needed to add the "Father Ted" after that

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    That little lefty love-in didn't last long, did it?

    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-pretence-over
    The opening point seemed to be a fairly GPWM tbf. France imposes Catholicism on it's Africa and quelle suprise! High birth rates!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    The opening point seemed to be a fairly GPWM tbf. France imposes Catholicism on it's Africa and quelle suprise! High birth rates!
    Were the Africans in those colonies big users of contraception before then?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
    Were the Africans in those colonies big users of contraception before then?
    Not really the point, is it? It's the birth rates now that Macron and the author are referring to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    Not really the point, is it? It's the birth rates now that Macron and the author are referring to.
    It's all about root causes; that's where the real money is, if you don't have enough guns.
    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    Not really the point, is it? It's the birth rates now that Macron and the author are referring to.
    Referencing high birth rates is not a racist statement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    Not really the point, is it? It's the birth rates now that Macron and the author are referring to.
    Here's what I don't get about post-colonial guilt. On the one hand, the poor, innocent, child-like people of Africa and Asia, apparently entirely lacking in agancy, did as they were told and took on the rules and regulations imposed by christianity because we told them to. Now that we tell them to do something different, such as not breeding in quite such a rabbit-like fashion, all of a sudden develop enough free will to ignore us.

    What's it to be? Are the oppressed peoples of the world naive natives, to be bent to our will as required, or sentient human beings with the ability to take responsibility for their actions?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    The opening point seemed to be a fairly GPWM tbf. France imposes Catholicism on it's Africa and quelle suprise! High birth rates!
    Yeah, Except for a couple of things:
    1/ A large number of the Africans in question are muslims.
    2/ France hasn't been in charge of those places for some time. These people are quite capable of making their own decisions.

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