Posted on 06/16/2020 12:10:41 PM PDT by knighthawk
French President Emmanuel Macron promised to not remove any statue in the country, proclaiming that France will not erase its history. The pledge came amidst international Black Lives Matter campaigns to tear down tributes to historical figures deemed too controversial to remain standing by the modern left.
On Sunday, President Macron made his first public statements after the death of George Floyd in America, after weeks of widespread protests and riots that have ravaged cities across France.
Mr Macron said that while he pledges to fight against “racism, antisemitism, and discrimination”, he would not be forced by the mob, which he termed as “separatists”, to remove monuments to colonial-era figures.
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The Dems are communist rats.
We’ll see about that.
.......UNTIL THEY DO.
Even France has more guts than our politicians.
Pretty bad when the French President is the only one defending the legacy of Western Civilization.
The Brits surrendered before the French this time.
I don't see a whole lot of resistance from the GOP either.
Idealist kids, communists and socialists (often the self perceived disenfranchised) and their tag alongs that now have a lot of time on their hand thanks to covid-19.
I wonder if Macron understands that erasing history is part of the communist agenda??
Winston Churchill actually *was* antifascist.
And the French haven’t forgotten what happens when the mob wins the revolution.
But today’s left wants to wipe out all that history from which the young people so desperately need to learn.
The ironies may be the death of us.
Sad day when Macron is on the short list of actual leaders.
Good for France!
The problem is Macron wants to welcome alien invaders while claiming to defend French history.
That is not going to end well—for French history.
Which reminds me, what ever happened to the noisy and politically connected folks who have passed a zillion rules and regulations about “historic preservation”.
Crickets......
Wiping out all history means no history of racism or slavery, right?
Look at all these silly posts.
The truth is that France’s leader has BALLS in this regard.
Trump should have done this.
Macron, sacre bleu! The hell you say. Just for that, they’re going to pull down more french statues than you can imagine.
If I’m wrong and miss my guess, then we should take notes.
The French had more than enough of that during the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
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