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As always, the country known for its human rights (or so they advertise themselves as), is gonna get reprimanded by the european court for not respecting the hu
by gobip 4y ago
As always, the country known for its human rights (or so they advertise themselves as), is gonna get reprimanded by the european court for not respecting the human rights.
Good job France.
- Kuinox 4y agoAlways first on the start, and always arriving late.
- wobbly_bush 4y ago> As always, the country known for its human rights (or so they advertise themselves as) As someone who wasn't aware of this association, I'm curious where do they advertise themselves for human rights?
- ramesh31 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité
- ASalazarMX 4y ago"Tell me what you boast of, and I'll tell you what you lack." - Old Hispanic proverb
- kergonath 4y agoThere’s this old quote from Surcouf (a French privateer from the late 18th and early 19th century). When an English captain told him “you Frenchmen fight merely for money. Whereas us Englishmen fight for Honour”, he answered “well, everyone fights for what he lacks”.
- Cupertino95014 4y agoTheir justification for colonizing countries was that France had a "civilizing mission." Maybe you've heard of that? I realize that's not necessarily identical to "human rights."
- webmobdev 4y agoI think that has more to do with Christianity - that political narrative of "civilising" people was a common binding thread between all the imperialists. It was thus common for Christian missionaries to be some of the first settlers in any new colony.
- lm28469 4y agoFunnily enough that was a very left wing view too
- FrenchAmerican 4y agoThis refers to the Declararation of Rights of Man dated August 1789. It's still nowadays the foreword to the French Constitution. Hence the idea that France is the home of the human rights, which is deeply rooted in the representation of many French of themselves as a country. Obviously, there is a huge gap with reality - but that can be opposed to any idealistic set of principles.
- lm28469 4y ago> deeply rooted in the representation of many French of themselves as a country. I wouldn't say that, I've never experiences it that way, neither in school nor in day to day life, it's more of an historical factoid. Kind of the same with America's "land of the free", sounds good on paper but not many people take it seriously.
- cm2187 4y agoWell the first thing France did after first adopting human rights is to set up a guillotine and start mass murdering political opponents...
- feet 4y agoYou mean the oppressive aristocracy? Calling them merely "political opponents" seems a little disingenuous
- Retric 4y agoAnyone in a position to be sent to prison isn’t currently being oppressive. The Terror (1793-1794) really was more about political opponents than addressing past oppression. Approximately 2% of the population was arrested and about 1/8th of them where executed including many aristocrats but also a high percentage being clergy etc. Basically anyone labeled as counter-revolutionary was killed off, a classic culling of political opponents after a revolution.
- _-david-_ 4y agoIf they were able to be guillotined they could have been imprisoned.
- yywwbbn 4y agoThey didn’t have enough space in prisons. Also the Guillotine was reserved for political opponents ordinary people were loaded on to rafts which were sunk in the middle of a river..
- kika 4y agoDo you even Wikipedia? Just going through the list: 1. Notable figure of the French Revolution 2. Duchess 3. Politician, member of the French Convention 4. Officer 5. Aristocrat, lawyer, public official 6. Noblewoman, court official 7. Hairdresser The most oppressive is hairdresser I guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_people_executed_by_guillotine_during_the_French_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:French_people_execute...
- pyuser583 4y agoFrance is also known for an extremely strong state.
- Haga 4y ago