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Over the last decade, moral grandstanding on colonial and racial matters has become a favourite of the British and American press when it comes to France. I do
by Bayart 5y ago
Over the last decade, moral grandstanding on colonial and racial matters has become a favourite of the British and American press when it comes to France.
I don't think they quite understand the complexity of French-Algerian relations, or care to.
What Macron is doing is already the most he can without stretching public forebearance.
- drumhead 5y agoWhats complex about 300 civilians being killed and then having their bodies thrown into a river in the middle of Paris. And then covered up for the next 50 years? Sounds like an excuse to me.
- johnchristopher 5y agoI am watching that from Belgium. What would happen if Macron did more ? Are we just (not) talking about financial compensations ? Is that why it's so hard to talk about it ? Or does it have something to do with pieds noirs and what it meant(s) to be French ? Algerian and french relationship is thorny but what's preventing - on the french side - things to get better ?
- badcede 5y agoEveryone grandstands about everyone else's atrocities.