• WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Seems like a pretty reasonable reaction to me? What other notable protests would people who didn’t die 200 years ago think of? I don’t really follow French news, so maybe I’m missing other more recent stuff?

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It’s a pretty Eurocentric take to think that the yellow vest protests are on everyone’s radar.

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          I’d say it’s more of a g8ish centrism. I don’t care about French news in particular. But their protests get a lot of world new attention. I doubt equivalent protests in a place like Hungary would get similar attention, but it would if it were Japan.

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          We’re taking about France. I’m American and like BBQ but I’m not going to complain about not following international news when we’re in a fucking thread in a comment section talking about fucking France.

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            1 year ago

            Sure but we’re in world news, not France news. We’re talking about France but you can’t expect everyone to be familiar with French politics.

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          I think youre just massively overreacting because you only know a single moment in fances history.

          The obvious answer to “oh, what did they do last time they banned protests?” Is “they started a protest about it.”

          France protests at the drop of a hat. Banning one of their top 10 favorite pasttimes is obviously going to cause a protest.

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          As wild pointed out, France has a reputation for frequent and massive protests regularly (compared to places like the US). Like, I was partly joking about the recent news thing because its a meme at this point. Obviously I don’t know what was in the mind of theacharnian, but my first thought was to think about what most recently happened when France made major news for protests against banning protests.