After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogeyman: video games

Re:After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogey... by naasking on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:44AM (#36633463)

> What kind of "social contract", or whatever one would call it, is that? I mean, being invisible and rightless, but allowed to work and get a tiny fraction of the value your work represents

I'm confused. This seems to be based on a narrative that Nahel was an immigrant, but I read that he was born and raised in France and was a french citizen. So hardly "invisible and rightless".

Also, the officer who shot him was arrested and is being charged. Isn't this exactly what you would expect to happen even in a perfectly just society?

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Re:After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogey... by jedimind on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:03PM (#36633749)

If that were the case, then why is it that the most of the propaganda against him or individuals of similar background involves the notion of "he wasn't a 'real' french person" and demonizing everything about them that can be remotely interpreted as "not french"?

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Re:After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogey... by naasking on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:45PM (#36635466)

I haven't followed this enough to objectively assess how this is being portrayed, but consider whether "most" of the propaganda you've been seeing is not a representative sample, but has been tailored to engage you.

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Re:After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogey... by jedimind on Saturday July 08, 2023 @11:05AM (#36645078)

I'm talking about tweets with 20k+ likes which contain outright lies and demonization of immigrants., so it's not "tailored" made to engage me, they are typical right-wing talking points.

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Re:After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogey... by naasking on Saturday July 08, 2023 @12:41PM (#36646103)

Twitter is not real life.

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