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Behind the Bastards

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The French Invasion of Algeria

The French took out all these grain loans under like the directory. Under Napoleon from the Algerian government the and like a TIFF where the governor of Algeria hit the French ambassador with a fly water. The whole invasion is wrapped up in this like monumental layer of racism that's about 'civilizing mission' And they consider Islam like a backwards culture at easy to be like integrated into French republicanism. This is stuff that you know if you've been if you've seen any like French social media post about this like now right? Yeah, this is the kind of racism they still do.

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