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Their Voice Is Fire: The Banlieues And The New Uprising in France

It Could Happen Here

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The Deindustrialization of the French State

France in this period is deindustrializing. And so the product of this is like you have all of these people who are now just unemployed Who were attempted to integrate them into the left and left just fuck them. When conservatives take over in the 90s, like they use them as this like race escape guilt for like every problem. They begin this massive authoritarian like campaigning as black and Muslim people. We hate them! The French state responds to this by going while all these people are like, like, is on his terrorists. It's a very similar thing that happens to 2007 when the police car crashes to two kids on a motorcycle and kill them. There's another very similar thing

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