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Man Scales Building to Save Dangling Child; Macron Offers Him Citizenship

dan3dauto 8y ago
amazing grace, impressively quick thinking! that said, doesn't it look like the guy already on the balcony should've been able to reach / save the kid without help?
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tnzn 8y ago
As a Frenchman, I've got to say I'm very bitter at this story. The guy sure deserves citizenship and deserves to be praised for what he did. The problem is how, every time some refugee/migrant/whatever you call them does something great, there's a huge media coverage about how the guy is cool and deserves citizenship, and our governments are kind of praised for doing so. Yet, in the mean time, the same government has ordered to cut refugee tents in order to prevent them from sleeping in some places, among other not-so-cool actions towards refugees. There's also a lot of coverage when one migrant or refugee does something bad (obviously). What I fear is that it tends to reinforce the idea that to deserve citizenship, one needs to do heroic stuff, or at least something flashy, for starters. Secondly, that when one refugee does something heroic, HE has to be given some consideration, but when one refugee does something bad, the image of refugees as a whole does suffer.
- nolite 8y ago
  I think you're taking it a bit to the extreme..
  - xxxdarrenxxx 8y ago
    More extreme than crossing a sea on a 20 buck rubber boat? People be talking about skin color not mattering, I'd say nothing is all that different and I can see a human with a starving family going to look for any "oppurtunistic" idea if it can make things better.
- bmking 8y ago
  I completely agree with you and these are exactly my thoughts as well.
- BrandoElFollito 8y ago
  You are a citizen either because you are lucky to be born here or because you are useful for the country. This does not mean you need to be z hero, just work and pay your taxes. Yet you have people who come to abuse our generous system (which I am grateful for and happy to pay extravagant taxes for). I do not know what the ratio of leeches to normal people is, and this lack of knowledge is one of the reasons for the fear / hatred against immigrants.
mabynogy 8y ago
The previous president did that many times on purpose. The goal is to show immigrants positively to widen the gap with the far right (their main political enemy). BTW this guy is a real hero and deserves to be recognized.

amazing grace, impressively quick thinking! that said, doesn't it look like the guy already on the balcony should've been able to reach / save the kid without help?

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tnzn 8y ago

As a Frenchman, I've got to say I'm very bitter at this story. The guy sure deserves citizenship and deserves to be praised for what he did. The problem is how, every time some refugee/migrant/whatever you call them does something great, there's a huge media coverage about how the guy is cool and deserves citizenship, and our governments are kind of praised for doing so. Yet, in the mean time, the same government has ordered to cut refugee tents in order to prevent them from sleeping in some places, among other not-so-cool actions towards refugees. There's also a lot of coverage when one migrant or refugee does something bad (obviously). What I fear is that it tends to reinforce the idea that to deserve citizenship, one needs to do heroic stuff, or at least something flashy, for starters. Secondly, that when one refugee does something heroic, HE has to be given some consideration, but when one refugee does something bad, the image of refugees as a whole does suffer.

nolite 8y ago
I think you're taking it a bit to the extreme..
- xxxdarrenxxx 8y ago
  More extreme than crossing a sea on a 20 buck rubber boat? People be talking about skin color not mattering, I'd say nothing is all that different and I can see a human with a starving family going to look for any "oppurtunistic" idea if it can make things better.
bmking 8y ago
I completely agree with you and these are exactly my thoughts as well.
BrandoElFollito 8y ago
You are a citizen either because you are lucky to be born here or because you are useful for the country. This does not mean you need to be z hero, just work and pay your taxes. Yet you have people who come to abuse our generous system (which I am grateful for and happy to pay extravagant taxes for). I do not know what the ratio of leeches to normal people is, and this lack of knowledge is one of the reasons for the fear / hatred against immigrants.

mabynogy 8y ago

The previous president did that many times on purpose. The goal is to show immigrants positively to widen the gap with the far right (their main political enemy). BTW this guy is a real hero and deserves to be recognized.