It all started with the tragic death of a teenage boy attending a village dance in southern France. Although the circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear, members of France’s ultra-right immediately…

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    1 year ago

    Eerily similar to the Dublin riots a few nights ago: far-right men “protesting” in reaction to social media rumors of violence upon white citizens by immigrants. When have these types of xenophobic shows of force ever ended well?

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      1 year ago

      It caused me to pay attention to Ireland’s news over the past few days which is how I’ve come to find that somebody just tried to hack an innocent stranger to death with a machete in Dublin yesterday. No riots or even protests though, so clearly you need a concerted effort to get that type of thing going and it’s not just people getting angry at the news.

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        No riots or even protests though

        Probably because the victim was East European. It remains to be seen if the attacker was Irish fash but, regardless, the fash get no mileage out of this one.