• Vandals desecrate 90 Jewish graves in east France ahead of marches
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-cemetery-antisemitism/vandals-desecrate-90-jewish-graves-in-east-france-ahead-of-marches-idUSKCN1Q81NZ
I guess when people get stressed enough they just abandon all morals and stop giving a fuck about history so they can launch their viciousness at something. That's always a cool thing to keep in mind.
Antisemitism has been a thing for a very long time in France - Look up the Dreyfus affair. It's overwhelmingly the same xenophobic fuckheads as before, who are using the unrest and weakness of authorities as an excuse to come out. I hardly believe a lot of people are becoming antisemitic because of the recent protests, but yes ultra right shitheads used the mouvements of unrest to push violence, used the anger and weakness of autorities to come out. And the country is taking it very seriously thankfully. As the article says, there were immense marches against antisemitism all over the country today.
I think people think of France as a fervently 'Allied', 'Pro-western', staunchly typically-European-Democratic nation- But as i see it, politically its been a hotbed of stupid shit for a long-ass time. I think the local Frenchies would agree. Having every kind of political group and subgroup seems to be the norm, perhaps moreso than in other nations- Fun story for instance; Did you know The Allies gave up on arming the French resistance at one point, because the 'French Resistance' was about a thousand different political groups, like communists, socialists, anarchist, anarcho-communists, monarchist-fascists and whatever the fuck else, who would almost fight each other more reliably than they would fight the Nazis.
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