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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 27, 2020, 3:46 am
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Unchanged. Le Pen has criticized Macron for still not being
Islamophobic enough despite Macron's recent insane Islamophobia.
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
DIR By: Prite
Date: October 27, 2020, 11:10 am
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> Unchanged. Le Pen has criticized Macron for still not being
Islamophobic enough despite Macron's recent insane Islamophobia.
>
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Would it be better if Jean-Luc Mélenchon won?
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_M%C3%A9lenchon
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
DIR By: guest5
Date: October 27, 2020, 12:46 pm
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> [quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=33.msg1806#msg1806
date=1603788370]
> Unchanged. Le Pen has criticized Macron for still not being
Islamophobic enough despite Macron's recent insane Islamophobia.
>
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Would it be better if Jean-Luc Mélenchon won?
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_M%C3%A9lenchon
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Have not read his entire wiki page yet but just skimming through
it this stuck out to me, interesting:
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> Mélenchon has himself his vision of populism, which he sees as
positive if it comes with a left ideology. He is inspired by the
philosopher Chantal Mouffe, who sought to theorise and
rehabilitate the term "left populism". This theory argues that
neoliberalism and austerity only made the far-right stronger and
that the word "people" has to be reintroduced into the political
sphere in a civic sense rather than an ethnic way (creating a
"right populism" to fight).
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I'm impressed by this. We need more leftists such as the type
Melenchon is advocating for in the above sentences.
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> Mélenchon has voiced his support for Rattachism.
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattachism
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 27, 2020, 11:12 pm
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"Would it be better if Jean-Luc Mélenchon won?"
Not really:
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> Following the killing of major general Qasem Soleimani,
Mélenchon tweeted: "We must equally condemn the USA and Iran as
warmongers. My condemnation of the USA does not exempt Iran from
the fact that it is a theocracy that wants to destroy the State
of Israel."[70] On French news channel LCI, he declared: "the
current government of Iran claims it wants to destroy the State
of Israel. This is an intolerable project which in itself
creates incredible tension in the region, and obviously favors
extremes on either side."[71]
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
DIR By: guest5
Date: October 28, 2020, 12:49 am
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Syrians protest against Macron’s anti-Muslim remarks
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> People in northern Syria protested against French President
Macron’s anti-Muslim remarks.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAkvKZqM06c
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
DIR By: guest5
Date: October 28, 2020, 1:25 am
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Muslim world’s falling-out with France deepens: Live news
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> Tens of thousands protest in Dhaka, Saudi Arabia weighs in,
and Iran summons diplomat over France’s treatment of Islam.
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/27/world-reaction-to-macron
Iran accuses France’s Macron of fuelling ‘extremism’
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> Insulting Muslims for ‘abhorrent crimes of such extremists is
an opportunistic abuse of freedom of speech’, Iranian FM Zarif
says.
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> “Muslims are the primary victims of the ‘cult of hatred’ –
empowered by colonial regimes & exported by their own clients,”
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted.
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/26/iran-accuses-frances-macron-of-fuelling-extremism
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 29, 2020, 3:58 pm
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HTML https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201029-malaysian-ex-pm-mahathir-says-muslims-have-right-to-kill-french
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> "The French in the course of their history has killed millions
of people. Many were Muslims. Muslims have a right to be angry
and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the
past."
>
> Mahathir, who served as Malaysian premier twice for a total of
24 years, said that French President Emmanuel Macron was "not
showing that he is civilised", adding he was "very primitive".
>
> "The French should teach their people to respect other
people's feelings. Since you have blamed all Muslims and the
Muslims' religion for what was done by one angry person, the
Muslims have a right to punish the French.
>
> "The boycott cannot compensate the wrongs committed by the
French all these years."
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To elaborate, France is still using the same flag as it used
during the colonial era:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_flags
and still keeping in its museums the stuff it stole during the
colonial era. How then can the French expect to be seen by
default as anything other than people proud of their colonial
past, and treated accordingly? If France wants change, it should
start by changing its flag:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/flag-decolonization/
and returning all stolen property:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/museum-decolonization/
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China and Africa Relations
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 1, 2020, 12:39 pm
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Gyude Moore: “China in Africa: An African Perspective”
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> Gyude Moore speaks about China’s expanding presence in Africa
at the Paulson Institute's Contemporary China Speakers Series on
March 5, 2019.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uzxV8ub9k
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>
> King LY
> 1 day ago
> Western countries telling African nations what's good or bad
for them is an insult to Africans' intelligence really.
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> Dico
> 1 month ago (edited)
> Very informative and a elogquent speaker.
>
> I remember this talk by this lady who said this: Chinese
company vs Western company in Africa. Chinese engineers stayed
in almost quarter like bunks and only return to China every 3~6
months. The western engineers stayed in 5 star hotels and return
home every month with first or business class flights and all
kinds of perks'. Damn, now I know why the Chinese are cheaper
and why the west is so pissed with China!
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> Nimue
> 1 day ago
> I mean as a Chinese I too cringe at racist people in my
country, but the racism in the US is on a whole other level
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 4, 2020, 1:53 pm
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Good work:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/stung-number-moderate-muslims-irked-160015164.html
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> France was stung into launching a charm offensive to quell
anti-French sentiment in some Muslim countries after receiving
tens of thousands of messages of indignation from moderate
believers on a government website, say reports.
>
> The French foreign ministry was said to be taken aback by the
scale of accusations of “colonial arrogance” on its Arabic
Facebook page from around 50,000 people from various countries.
Usually, the site receives a few dozen likes or comments.
>
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 4, 2020, 5:52 pm
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Well, all things considered and not advocating for increased
reproduction of humans here, but at-least 25% of the world's
population is Muslim! We can thank God for that much! ;D
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