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Re:In Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack, Let’s Not Sacrifice Even... by Crito on Thursday January 08, 2015 @06:32PM (#8859758)
> "I have family in Paris who have steadily become more and more reactionary as the FN (the French far-right) have been given more exposure, even before these attacks."

What makes you think there must be a causational relationship between these two things? Or for that matter, if we assume for the moment that one did cause the other, how can you be sure which caused which? Perhaps the FN has become more and more mainstream as a result of more and more French citizens drifting towards the right.

> "And it's not an "opposing viewpoint" to me, it's just completely harmful."

I don't really understand why being an opposing viewpoint and being harmful are mutually exclusive to you. You do oppose their viewpoint (very strongly it seems), so it surely is an opposing viewpoint.

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Re:In Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack, Let’s Not Sacrifice Even... by tsotha on Thursday January 08, 2015 @10:06PM (#8860505)
>What makes you think there must be a causational relationship between these two things?

It's probably more that the growth of the FN is a result of people becoming "more and more reactionary".

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