• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    My money is on France having a military coup and then literally rounding up Muslims for extermination or deportation. Western media will refuse to call it genocide and keep harping on about Xinjiang.

    • IceWallowCum [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Watch China offer help to the Muslims and be criticized for it. "Is China enabling terrorism in the west?"

      • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        China's refugee acceptance is just a distraction from it's genocide of Uighur Muslims inside it's own borders

        Is it time for Xinjiang (and Tibet) to be allowed independence?

  • TheCaconym [any]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    This time they're active military; and these imbeciles opened up signatures for anyone wanting to express support.

    As of right now, a few hours after publication, it's already got 93400 people having signed it :france-cool:

    Edit: it's 7 PM in France and now the count of people signing has reached 163000.

      • toledosequel [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        We can't forget the March On Rome was the climax of a long effort by Mussolini to consolidate political power and industrial support, not the beginning.

        So let's say in a couple weeks :evo:

    • TheCaconym [any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Ah, good to know, thanks; I just picked the first English-speaking source I could find.

    • TheCaconym [any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Jesus Christ. I should be surprised but of course I'm not.

    • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      These academics have like states goals to subvert and destroy western identities.

      This will never not be funny to me. I don't know how it went for academics in Europe, but I know any actual leftist academics in the US faced vicious push back/firing/threats of litigation (often from their own 'colleagues') during the Soviet Union's existence; I can't imagine it has gotten much better in the proceeding decades. And I can't imagine it was much different over there.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The last chapter of Against Empire (Imperialism in Academia) is basically just a 15 page list of all the leftist professors that were buried, starved, or fired for being leftists.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        I know any actual leftist academics in the US faced vicious push back/firing/threats of litigation (often from their own ‘colleagues’) during the Soviet Union’s existence

        I was in school during the Bush Era. My liberal arts professors ranged from liberal dove to Goldwater-tier crank. The closest thing to a Marxist I ever encountered was a math professor, and he was in a constant state of despair about US politics. Hardly a revolutionary actor.

      • TheCaconym [any]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        The largest public research organization in Europe - the CNRS, it's French - actually published an official statement explaining that "islamo-leftism" wasn't actually a thing, and also saying that post-colonial studies were actual valid science; that following the braindead remarks of some of Macron's ministers.

        Not that the public listened of course.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      People read way too much into the observation that Marx was an academic and Mao was a teacher.

      Stalin was a fucking bank robber. Nobody seems overly concerned at the prospect of a bank robber destroying western civilization, and yet they're far more explicit in stating goals to this effect.

  • toledosequel [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    As unlikely as I think this is, interesting to see how negative the international reaction to a French military coup would be.

      • TheCaconym [any]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        They already had one back in the 50’s.

        Funny how that wasn't in my history books in school (I'm French); tons of praise for De Gaulle was, though. Realized it was a coup from the old CTH sub actually.