Yes, I'm a little angry
The next time some opportunistic bigoted demaguogue tries to play off the stereotypes in your subconscious, look up Captain Mbaye Diagne. That would be the devout Senegalese Muslim military officer, presumably francophone, who violated his UN orders and pulled somewhere between dozens and hundreds of people alive out of the hell of Rwanda in 1994
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- A friend of mine is trying to save some kids from having their souls crushed by a particularly nasty/sexist charedi cult.
- Some recent reminders of the Rwanda catastrophe, which is what happens when bigoted opportunistic demagogues do their jobs really well.
- A bunch of Danes have, to their credit, been complaining to me, subtly but quite bitterly, about what the Danske Folkeparti (the local brown-phobic demagogue party) is doing to their country and to its reputation abroad.
- Geert Wilders got off scot free. I'm not second-guessing the judges, who had to decide the case by the law, but I worry about what he'll be able to do with the legitimacy of his acquittal. Not that hate speech laws are that useful a tool; lots of fear-mongers have figured out how to get their message across while staying on the legal-free-speech side of the line.
I suppose I ought to be fair and point out that part of the success of the European far-right parties is due to their willingness to ( ... )Reply
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