[rarestia]

I feel for the French being what they are in an area so near to Muslim north Africa, but they put themselves in this situation.

I thought the French were historically xenophobic? When did they start becoming so accommodating?

[VanDeKoik]

“I thought the French were historically xenophobic? When did they start becoming so accommodating?”

let’s just say they didn’t have a choice at certain points in their history.

[PapaBear3625]

I thought the French were historically xenophobic? When did they start becoming so accommodating?

When elites which to become dictators, they must have a class of thugs to oppress the common people. These thugs must have nothing in common with they people they are to control, preferably should despise them, ideally should be outcasts who hate the regular populace.