#whataboutism is a European pasttime.

Meanwhile, Jean-Marie le Pen’s memoir sold out before it even hit shelves. SMH. If he *is* the son of the nation, we gotta get Marianne on the pill ASAP.

The French are notoriously bad at handling their problems with racism. They either ignore it completely or go far into racist territory, but rebut any challenge with how much they like black Americans. According to my mother, who went to high school outside of Paris in the 70s, it’s gotten FAR worse.

I honestly didn’t think it was possible to write a racist screed without hate-fucking your keyboard.

...And no excessive CAPS LOCK.

La Bequette n’est même pas la pire. Meet her niece (whose campaign was first funded by Putin).

They should use those to test for reflexes rather than that hammer, because I swear the “butbutbut that doesn’t happen it’s not me wypipo aren’t like that I’M NOT RACIST” is literally faster than a kneejerk.

Never thought I’d have to see that again *sigh*

Hopefully the charges against her result in something happening.

France is interesting mostly because of how they’ve hid behind their “liberte, egalite, fraternite! laicite!” and “we’re the place folks fled to during the Harlem Renaissance!” cache whenever their Maghreb and Southwest African immigrant population call for government-backed attempts to assist with disparities. It is…

And let’s not forget Marion Le Pen was here last week to attend the Republican fascist gathering. She is one of those french fascists stoking those kinds of racist sentiments in France.

Zwarte Piet.

Already got one reply like this. Dismissed with prejudice.

It hasn’t worked that well yet in South Africa. Or the United States.

The only difference is that the English isn’t broken.

Can only hope that crap like this could help France grasp the concept that closing eyes and sticking fingers in the ears do not erase the existence and Frenchness of those who are a few generations in.

Without fail, wherever They are in the world, this type of soulless rhetoric is the first thing they resort to. This letter might as well be from the Clapback Mailbag: France Edition. It’s almost verbatim the rants Michael shares with us weekly.

Enter now the people who will claim she made it up, because they can’t believe that people actually deal with this shit.

It’s been nice to discover how many comic book dorks there are here on the Root.

Kinda hope it does. I enjoyed Wonder Woman but Black Panther is better hands down.