France General Discussion IV: Yellow Fever

[CumbrianLefty]

Clearly TERFs have less influence in France (their media in particular)

Meanwhile, the BBC have just authorised a multi-episode hit job on Stonewall - just after inviting the undiluted hate group "The LGB Alliance" onto its airspace pretty much without challenge.

[Libertas Vel Mors]

Clearly TERFs have less influence in France (their media in particular)

Meanwhile, the BBC have just authorised a multi-episode hit job on Stonewall - just after inviting the undiluted hate group "The LGB Alliance" onto its airspace pretty much without challenge.

What's with left-wingers and criticizing everyone who's anti-transgenderism as a TERF? You can be anti-transgenderism without being a radical feminist.

And I highly doubt the BBC is launching a hit job on Stonewall.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Today is the sixtieth anniversary of one of the most shocking events in the history of postwar Europe: the massacre of hundreds of Algerian demonstrators by the Paris police. Most of the victims were thrown into the Seine and drowned; their exact number is not known. The man who ordered the massacre - the Prefect of the Paris Police, Maurice Papon - had only a few decades earlier enthusiastically participated, as no. 2 in the Bordeaux police under the Vichy regime, in the implementation of the Final Solution. He was never brought to book for the October 17th massacre, but was for what happened in Bordeaux. For this he served a grand total of four years in prison.

[EastAnglianLefty]

Clearly TERFs have less influence in France (their media in particular)

Meanwhile, the BBC have just authorised a multi-episode hit job on Stonewall - just after inviting the undiluted hate group "The LGB Alliance" onto its airspace pretty much without challenge.

What's with left-wingers and criticizing everyone who's anti-transgenderism as a TERF? You can be anti-transgenderism without being a radical feminist.

And I highly doubt the BBC is launching a hit job on Stonewall.

TERF in UK discourse has become divorced from the original acronym, and generally just means 'vocally hostile to trans people'. Most of them certainly aren't radical feminists - the two main currents are a particularly middle-class strand of UK feminism, which tends to be inward-looking, hostile to intersectional analyses, and at times veering into outright misandrism; and old-fashioned social conservatism, which ranges from the open to the partially concealed.

It's certainly a hit job on Stonewall, though also (as is the tradition with our rather solipsistic state broadcaster) a hit job on the BBC.

[NewYorkExpress]

Alexandre Benalia sentenced to three years in prison, two suspended.

A former security adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron was sentenced on Friday to three years in jail, two of them suspended, over charges including roughing up May Day protesters in 2018, media reported.

The May Day scandal was an embarrassment for Macron, who is expected to run again in elections next year.

The court said Alexandre Benalla, who was also found guilty of illegally using diplomatic passports and illegally carrying a weapon, acted with "a feeling of impunity and omnipotence," a franceinfo reporter present in the courthouse said on Twitter.

The court's sentence was tougher than the 18-month suspended term sought by prosecutors.
Benalla will serve the one-year sentence at home with an electronic bracelet, media including BFM TV said.

Macron and his Elysee palace team were sharply criticized in 2018 for not immediately sacking Benalla, who was fired when a video of the incident emerged six weeks later.

[NewYorkExpress]

French authorities are investigating a male solider raping female solider at the Presidential Palace.

French authorities are investigating an alleged rape that occurred earlier this year in the presidential Elysee Palace, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Friday.

The prosecutor’s office told The Associated Press the investigation was opened on July 12. But it did not immediately confirm French media reports saying a female soldier guarding the palace had accused a serviceman of rape on July 1.


French media have also reported that President Emmanuel Macron was not nearby when the attack allegedly took place but had been at an event earlier in the evening. Macron resides at the Elysee.

The Paris prosecutor’s office said the accused serviceman has been questioned as an “assisted witness,” a status that means he was not interviewed as a suspect facing potential charges.

The office would not confirm or provide further details.

[parochial boy]

The Petit-Robert dictionary included the neologism that is the gender neutral third peson pronoun "iel" in its online edition.

The reactions have been... predictable

[NewYorkExpress]

Elisabeth Moreno claims France still has a problem with patriarchy.

Elisabeth Moreno, France’s minister for gender equality, diversity and equal opportunities, told CNBC Friday that the country still has a problem with “patriarchal attitudes.”

Moreno, who was speaking to CNBC’s Karen Tso at the Women’s Forum in Paris on Friday, said that French President Emmanuel Macron had made gender equality the “great cause of his term.”

She said that there had been particular focus on violence against women. For instance, last year the French Parliament approved a bill giving more power to doctors to help protect victims of domestic violence. However, France reportedly still has one of the highest rates of femicide in Europe.

Moreno said the French government was also focusing on improving gender equality in the workplace. In May, the French Parliament voted unanimously to introduce gender quotas at an executive level.

Nevertheless, Moreno said that France still suffered from “a lot of stereotypes, a lot of patriarchal attitudes.”

[Estrella]

Elisabeth Moreno claims France still has a problem with patriarchy.

Elisabeth Moreno, France’s minister for gender equality, diversity and equal opportunities, told CNBC Friday that the country still has a problem with “patriarchal attitudes.”

Moreno, who was speaking to CNBC’s Karen Tso at the Women’s Forum in Paris on Friday, said that French President Emmanuel Macron had made gender equality the “great cause of his term.”

She said that there had been particular focus on violence against women. For instance, last year the French Parliament approved a bill giving more power to doctors to help protect victims of domestic violence. However, France reportedly still has one of the highest rates of femicide in Europe.

Moreno said the French government was also focusing on improving gender equality in the workplace. In May, the French Parliament voted unanimously to introduce gender quotas at an executive level.

Nevertheless, Moreno said that France still suffered from “a lot of stereotypes, a lot of patriarchal attitudes.”

A huge "no sh*t" moment, but France being France the reaction will be similarly predictable as with the above. Of course, sexism is only a problem among Muslim men - like that time when a minister was catcalled by the haven of radical Islamism that is the LR National Assembly caucus.

The Petit-Robert dictionary included the neologism that is the gender neutral third peson pronoun "iel" in its online edition.

The reactions have been... predictable

FF move, but... I'm sorry, when I read that, I could only think of this.

[PSOL]

I have just learned that the Anti-Cult program ended. This is the death knell of all that is good about Laïcite

[PSOL]

Strikes and protests in French island colonies

For the past week, trade unions in French Polynesia have been negotiating with the government of President Édouard Fritch. Strike notices were filed, and then tumultuous discussions erupted over the clear set of demands. It was the government’s refusal to give in to the five main demands that triggered mobilizations. On Wednesday, November 24, four of the five trade union confederations began a strike with a common platform for their workers in both the public and private sectors, to which some specific demands were added for particular employers.

First and foremost, the strike in Polynesia is in line with the demands of the ongoing mobilizations in other French territories, particularly Guadeloupe and Martinique. Wage increases and an end to mandatory vaccinations are at the heart of the strike. The unions are demanding a 4 percent wage increase to keep up with the rising cost of living, but the government offered only 2 percent in the negotiations — less than the 2.8 percent increase in food prices last year reported by Tahiti Infos. As for vaccinations, which are slated to be compulsory on December 23, the unions say that 15,000 workers do not want to be vaccinated at the moment and they are demanding the measure be repealed.

[windjammer]

Honestly let's force everyone to be vaccinated and that would solve the lockdown problem

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

And Leftists love arguing that unions are always right.

As for vaccinations, which are slated to be compulsory on December 23, the unions say that 15,000 workers do not want to be vaccinated at the moment and they are demanding the measure be repealed.

[CumbrianLefty]

Honestly let's force everyone to be vaccinated and that would solve the lockdown problem

Let's indeed remember where the phrase "forced to be free" originated

[NewYorkExpress]

Amid unrest over COVID restrictions, France is considering granting some autonomy to Guadeloupe.

Minister for Overseas Affiars Sebastian Lecornu, said the French Government was ready to talk about giving some autonomy to Gaudeloupe following massive riots and protests on the island over COVID restrictions and a lagging economy.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Reuters/status/1463206965727928325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etf...

[Zinneke]

Honestly let's force everyone to be vaccinated and that would solve the lockdown problem

Let's indeed remember where the phrase "forced to be free" originated

easy way to solve that

anyone who refuses the vaccine also is deprioritized from an ICU bed, and if they are taken in for care are not subsidised by the state but must pay out of their own pocket.

[NewYorkExpress]

COVID Pass protestors pelt MP Stephane Claireaux with seaweed.

A French MP has been attacked by a crowd of Covid-19 pass protesters outside his home in the overseas territory of St Pierre and Miquelon.

Video showed Stéphane Claireaux being pelted with seaweed and other missiles in the North American territory.

He likened the attack to a "stoning" and said he would file criminal charges against those responsible.

The MP is from the ruling party of French President Emmanuel Macron, who said the incident was "intolerable".

The attack came a few days before the introduction of France's health pass in St Pierre and Miquelon, two islands near Canada's Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.

The measure has long been in effect on the French mainland, where people are required to present proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test to access many public venues.

Local media said about 500 opponents of the passes gathered for a protest in St Pierre and in Miquelon, where Covid infections are rising.

A group of those protesters descended on Mr Claireaux's home.

"I was waiting for the demonstrators in order to speak to them," he told the franceinfo news website. "There was a car loaded with seaweed, and people started throwing it at my face. It was like a stoning."

https://twitter.com/AnnickGirardin/status/1480270903736942596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etf...

[CumbrianLefty]

500 people is a significant proportion of the total population there, no?

[MaxQue]

500 people is a significant proportion of the total population there, no?

The demonstration was endorsed by the local senator (who is now trying very to backpedal). Hi is also one of the 9 senators trying time and time again to introduce amendments to delete the pass.

[NewYorkExpress]

Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer apparently announced new COVID measures while on vacation in Ibiza.

France's education minister has come under fire after confirming reports that he announced stringent new Covid-19 measures for schools while on vacation on the Spanish party island Ibiza.

"I regret the symbolism" of Ibiza, Jean-Michel Blanquer told lawmakers on Tuesday.
However he did caveat his regret. "In winter it's not at all like in summer," he told French TV channel TF1 Tuesday, "I was just outside, in contact with the government."

Blanquer announced the measures in a telephone interview with French newspaper Le Parisien, published on January 2, the magazine's editor said on Twitter, although reporters did not know he was in Spain at the time.

[parochial boy]

For the first time in recorded history, something news worthy happens in Savoie.



Yes, I am that juvenile. Problem?

[Zinneke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtq7Lb4cvaQ

[(no subject)]

France  in 1940 is like the old joke about the Palestinians listening to their Soviet military advisors: 'Lure the enemy onto your territory and then wait for the winter snows...'

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

https://www.montelnews.com/news/1345777/french-prices-soar-to-new-highs-on-nuclear-outages

"French prices soar to new highs on nuclear outages"

Another surge in France's power prices on news of nuclear plant outages.

How is this being viewed in France? Do French people blame Macron/LREM for the increases and will it have an electoral effect?

[Antonio the Sixth]

For the first time in recorded history, something news worthy happens in Savoie.



Yes, I am that juvenile. Problem?

Where is that?