Rise of far-right in France after Paris Attacks

[politicman]

53. response

1) You can try to justify Front National anyway you like by arguing that it's founder offered this or that, but the party as it stands now is racist. It's common knowledge that the Front Nationals have racist language and racist policy proposals, you cant argue that away.

2) Your problem is that you seek to justify racist attitudes through trying to explain them away with the argument that immigrants have an accent that disadvantages them when going for jobs against 'true' French (I say true in quotes for a lack of a better word considering descendants of immigrants and even immigrants themselves who have achieved citizenship are all true French people).
Employers discriminating against people that have an 'accent' is racist, don't try to explain it away.
Heck, we have laws against that here.

3) France has banned the Burka in public, and then went a step further and banned head scarves in public schools. Everyone and his dog knows that these laws were brought in primarily to deal with Muslims and their religious garb. If a country passes a law intended to make the most impact on one segment of society, a minority segment, then that country has decided to go down the path of being racist.
Ataturk was no saint, he did the bidding of the west after the Ottoman Empire fell because the west backed him as leader. Ataturk wanted to turn Turkey into a secular country because that's what the British and French wanted, and in doing so he tried to remove the religious element of Turkish culture.
And in any case, someone else's racist policies don't lend credence to a new racist policy being enacted.

3) How many times need I explain this to you. The fact that the Front Nationals have had increased support from the French public after the Paris attacks shows that the French public have decided to embrace a party that demonises Muslims. That is racist.
If an African American committed a vile crime and suddenly the Republicans started to get increased support from the American public because they had policies that advocated against African Americans and demonised, would you also defend these new supporters as not being racist?