nice terrorist attack (nsfw)

[Ben]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/14/europe/nice-france-truck/


on bastille day? is this... cultural appropriation?

[Ben]

why do french ppl keep getting killed #frenchlivesmatter, #notallmuslims, im planning a sit-in for truck control laws, etc etc

[Gorilla Tits]

Nuke the arabs

[fat lesbian]

it's good to know that people are dead and your immediate reaction is to crack a "cultural appropriation" joke

[fat lesbian]

but if that's the way we're going i guess that wasn't very Nice of them

[Urser]

what an innocuous url

[grue]

why do french ppl keep getting killed #frenchlivesmatter, #notallmuslims, im planning a sit-in for truck control laws, etc etc

a more serious reply here is that france has

a) an iffy, probably the iffiest, relationship with certain muslim ex-collonies
b) a very outward and proud defense of freedom of speech for anti-religious people (like charlie hebdo but also see the french press generally)
c) a very conflictuous migrant problem that's been dating back for dozens of years across different migrant populations and generations
d) all of it boiling down specifically with the current muslim migrant population
e) anti-islam imagery laws, the rise of the rigth-wing and the rise of organized violent islam
f) expanding on b) to add that france is traditionally one of the bastions of european culture

this is all assuming the truck thing was a terrorist attack and an islamist one at that, of course, but the above stands regardless

[fat lesbian]

doesn't france and most of western europe also have a really severe problem w nationalism and the fascism that comes along with it as well

[fat lesbian]

no more than america obv but like enough to be notable

[grue]

yeah, i included that in the rise of right-wing but yeah it is its own thing

[Delirious Biznasty]

[Urser]

i was saying boonjour