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Old 04-26-2016, 11:14 AM   #355
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Actually, there was, as there always is, an immediate reaction from a number of people on the left to reflexively talk about French foreign policy as the true culprit here, or a lack of integration, or racist tendencies in Europe as having provoked the attacks. This sort of reaction was obviously far more obvious after the Charlie Hebdo murders, where the magazine was blamed for being provocative or racist.

But I really think you're getting the message wrong there. The issue isn't that white people are victims. The primary victims of islamist terrorism are not white people. They're women and other disadvantaged groups in areas dominated by islamism who are oppressed by the political ideology there. The issue of ethnicity that comes up isn't "no one cares about whites anymore", it's "people will make excuses for or otherwise fail to condemn behaviour by people where, if that behaviour were committed by a white person, there would be widespread unadulterated outrage". It's the double standard that's his point, not some notion of white persecution.
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