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Drake Tungsten is offline Drake Tungsten
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Hate crimes do happen everywhere, true. Anti-Semitism in France is worse than what should be expected, however, and is steadily getting worse. It's extremely worrying.

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LC: *COUGH* Hitler *COUGH* Melsovic *COUGH*


a) I'm not aware of any incident in which either of those painted a swastika on anyone.
b) I was under the impression that we were talking about the present situation in Western Europe.
c) It's "Milosevic".
b) Nice Godwin.

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Right. I don't know.. I think we should look at statistics, do some kind of research to the reasons.. for example, we should know about this other minority getting constantly to these kind of actions, my guess is they're just PUNKS, youngster groups who would be a problem in the streets no matter what they're up to. My guess is these are street PUNKS, whose victims they targeted to be Jews this time, however they failed in that. I'm certain they're not good law abiding citizens who picked up on their target because they want to beat and kill every Jew in France. Most likely they're Punks, who want to beat up people, and especially Jews.

The difference is, there is a problem even without the marking. It's ironic too, being minority themselves and not wanting to integrate to France. I'm sure they will be handled like PUNKS are, and cops or anyone else is not protecting these youngsters when it comes to authorities and officials.

Of course it's a problem.. but what are you going to do, there are lot of immigrants in France, and some of them are doing these things, obviously they follow the news and take the wrong action. But they're like neo nazis in here. They just hate everyone basically, even you, the majority, white man.

I bet all my money that these punks who did this are not first timers when it comes to braking the law. What should be expected in France and these crimes, I don't know, what do you expect? I don't see these kind of articles everyday, it's a big country. I tell you this much though, Anti-semitism, as condemnable it is, is far less of hate crimes that happens inside France and every single European nation. Yet, you and lot of people seem to be mostly concerned about this only. It's natural and good to be concerned about this, I'm concerned too, but I'd say the problem is far more wider than anti-semitism.

When we have organized attacks happening that are being protected by some authority figures, then we have a problem that is major ****ing concern. If not, we're just singling out one group getting attacks, when in reality everyone is under attack on wide and regular basis, for a variety of reasons, and the people that are involved attacking Jews are most likely involved in the wider problem, with all sorts of crimes and misbehaving.

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But don't think me as a person who doesn't give a crap about the single incidents. If it was up to me, if I was the police, judge and executioner, I'd most likely baton the mofos to the ground and deport their ass where they came from the next day. And for the ones that are citizens or have lived a long time already, I'd baton them even harder and give maximum penalty and keep an eye on them later on. These kind of actions are absolutely unacceptable.

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Last night the BBC World Service was reporting that there had been more anti-semitic attacks in France during the last six months then in all of last year.


Have you got a link?

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cough cough KKK cough


Read the previous post. If you do you might understand the thread better.

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tragic incident but having a puke like drag queen making a thread about it sucks even more

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Hey! In America our hates crimes are often fatal! No way the Frogs can match that! I mean, when is the last time a French jews got strung up to a pickup truck and got dragged to death? I tell you, never!. The Frogs don;t have that kind of imagination!

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This isn't street violence. A woman and her 13-month old child were attacked on a train, in the suburbs, just because someone thought they were Jews. That never happens in America (or pretty much every other Western country, for that matter).

I'm sure it never happens, just like gays are never tied up to a remote Wyoming fencepost and severely beaten, left for dead.

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Hey, onl;y anti-semitic crimes count! Racists or homophobic hate crimes are completely different! Completely!

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Hey, onl;y anti-semitic crimes count! Racists or homophobic hate crimes are completely different! Completely!


really, GePap, youre better than this post.


Of course homophobic and racist hatecrimes are terrible, as are antisemitic ones.

Clearly homophobia and racism are important problems in America. As antisemitism is in France.

The incidents referenced above led to soul searching in America, at least among the more thoughtful classes. And to a renewed focus on hate crimes here. I hope M. Chirac will lead France in soul searching wrt antisemitism.

I will not prejudge his efforts.

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This doesn't have anything to do with French people...


Doesn't the fact that it was on a train and no one came to her defense bother anyone else about this incident?

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yes...

and so does the fact that a woman when she's beeing raped has to cry fire in order for people to come and take a look

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Doesn't the fact that it was on a train and no one came to her defense bother anyone else about this incident?



Sure it does. But I'm 100% sure the fact that no one had the courage to do so is not related to anti-semitism but lack of courage. And to be honest, when 6 agressive men walk in and make terror, I'm pretty sure, I'd duck and cover instead of heroically jump in. It's different when there's a single offender or when you feel there's something you can actually do, but in this case. This isn't good, but it's again unrelated to France and in this case also unrelated to anti-semitism or whatever, it's a matter of civil courage.

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This isn't good, but it's again unrelated to France ..., it's a matter of civil courage.
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really, GePap, youre better than this post.


Of course homophobic and racist hatecrimes are terrible, as are antisemitic ones.

Clearly homophobia and racism are important problems in America. As antisemitism is in France.

The incidents referenced above led to soul searching in America, at least among the more thoughtful classes. And to a renewed focus on hate crimes here. I hope M. Chirac will lead France in soul searching wrt antisemitism.

I will not prejudge his efforts.


I am supposed to be better than sarcasm aimed at Drake's blatant Francophobia?

The French government at least makes more of a noise combating anti-semitism than our government does about fighting homophobia.

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Doesn't surprise me. In here no one ever helps anyone in cases like this. There was a rape in Helsinki, in a middle of the road, and people walked by. It was night, but there was people, no one helped the woman and the rapist was alone. Someone called the cops, but no one helped. The reason is too familiar, if you help, you'll get sentenced as well. Most likely even more harshly than the attacker. It's a known fact that if man rapes a woman, and another man sees it and comes and beats the rapist (not even to hospital), the man helping will get bigger sentence, it's a fact. It's sad. But if you're being beat up in here, expect no one to come helping you. They'll just walk by.

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We French have a reputation of being always ten years late in comparison with the US. We are indeed discovering the horror of hate crimes these years, while the US had already enough time to stop being shocked by them at home.

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in the US they kill a person like every 5 minutes...
no comparison forget it.

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Doesn't the fact that it was on a train and no one came to her defense bother anyone else about this incident?

It's really bothersome, and sadly it is really common whenever someone is attacked in public: pretty much nobody acts, for fear of trouble.

It doesn't have to do with antisemitism, because it happens all the time for all kinds of agressions

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RIght. It's more like strangers are grabbing a hold on other strangers 'don't go there, you'll get hurt'.

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Downplaying the problem?


Chirac always trys to deflect criticism like many people on this thread have, by claiming that anti-Semitism in France is no more widespread and dangerous than hate crimes in other nations. That's BS and downplays the problem.

False.
Chirac has very little political vision, but the country's social cohesion is one of the few problems he understands to be capital.

If anybody in the ruling team is really concerned about antisemitism (and other forms of racism, which are very destructive as well, although in a different way), it's Chirac.

Unfortunately, this government will not give money to try solving problems. The only thing that will get done is more policing, and probably the introduction of the notion of hate crime in our legislation.
The terrible integration problems that are facing our immigrants (especially second-generation Arabs and Blacks) will not be adressed, because Chirac won't have the money to build decent housing, to offer free language lessons to immigrants, to improve school results in the impoverished areas, to really act against racist discrimination at hiring...

All of these factors dramatically affect the hatred many of our poor (read: many of our Arabs and Blacks) feel about the rest of France, the Jews in particular, who have a reputation of having mucho money.

In short, Chirac may want to act, but the government isn't giving him money in order to be any efficient.

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Could have been worse. They could have used those knives for more than threats.

Anyway, if she'd have been a defensive expert instead of believing "the system will protect me" the world would be free of 3 idiots.

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I am supposed to be better than sarcasm aimed at Drake's blatant Francophobia?

The French government at least makes more of a noise combating anti-semitism than our government does about fighting homophobia.


I have found that on those occasions when I have trod the line of decency, it is usually in response to someone elses indecent, trollish, or just plain stupid posts. You have rightly called me on those occasions.

Your own post did not quote Drake directly. It could be read as yet another "antisemitism in Europe isnt a real concern, its just an excuse for eurobashing" posts.

One neednt be a eurobasher to be concerned about this.

As for US dealing with homophobic hatecrimes, thats generally done at the local level in the US, since thats where our police are controlled. IIUC the police in France report to the national Interior Minister.

We also had a national commision a few years ago to look at issues of racism.

I would also add, that if there were a conflict somwhere in the world in which one side was black and one was not (like Zimbabwe for example) and the black side asked the US to not participate as a mediator, citing US problems with racist violence, I for one would think that a very reasonable request.

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Your own post did not quote Drake directly. It could be read as yet another "antisemitism in Europe isnt a real concern, its just an excuse for eurobashing" posts.



I have to say I do think this is Drake's main point, just to Bash France and that he does not care much about the underlying problem. If this occured in Italy, would he have posted? I don't know, but I doubt it.

Drake is a untrustworthy source when it comes to anything French.

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I have to say I do think this is Drake's main point, just to Bash France and that he does not care much about the underlying problem. If this occured in Italy, would he have posted? I don't know, but I doubt it.

Drake is a untrustworthy source when it comes to anything French.



during the height of things in 2002, there was a very nasty cartoon printed in an Italian paper. Bloggers and others made a big stink, and the usual "youre blowing antisemitism out of proportion" folks responded. Dont know about Drake, but this comes up for other countries than France.

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I am sure it does- Drake brought it upon himself by claiming these sorts of attacks never happen in the US-which is a really dumb claim to make but also speaks to the nature of the thread (bash France).

As for the issue itself- from what I have heard the French State takes it very seriously.

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I am sure it does- Drake brought it upon himself by claiming these sorts of attacks never happen in the US-which is a really dumb claim to make but also speaks to the nature of the thread (bash France).



Drake:

"This isn't street violence. A woman and her 13-month old child were attacked on a train, in the suburbs, just because someone thought they were Jews. That never happens in America."

The above is an accurate statement as far as it goes. Maybe that misses the point, but the same is true for lots of statements on all sides on this forum.

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Doesn't the fact that it was on a train and no one came to her defense bother anyone else about this incident?


The bystanders were all French. They saw swastikas and surrendered. (Sorry, Spiff)

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Wow, imagine the outrage if they'd actually been Jews who were attacked, and not just regular (and therefore smelly) French people.

 
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