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I want to fix the problem.

You’re content to let it get worse.

Typical lib stuff.

I didn’t say Algeria was the motivation, I said it was the antecedent. French colonialism is the reason their parents had to leave their homes and the reason that these men were French in the first place. It’s not like this is ancient history.

Now as for hatred for Jews and America, all that too ties back to imperialism and neocolonialism. Their hatred for Jews is obviously tied to the fact that there’s a Jewish-supremacist ethnostate in the middle east (that France supports) and which touts itself as representative of all Jews. Sadly, this results in blowback onto Jewish people who are not Israeli.

But they’re still French so still pay their taxes to France which sends weapons to Israel. It’s only very recently that France decided to stop sending weapons to Israel, but when these attacks happened France was fully complicit in Israeli settler-colonialism.

And most notably, France is a key American ally. America creates blowback that falls onto its allies.

Blowback is complicated, but it’s undeniably the root cause. They even said so! My point: we have to analyze all of the context surrounding the attack. “French” Algeria, the War on Terror, Israeli settler-colonialism, etc etc it’s all connected.

You are the one determined to erase their motivations by just making it about cartoons. It’s not.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/14/laffaire-charlie-hebdo-and-western-colonialism/

These men were fighting with Western-backed rebels in Syria to overthrow Assad, which is where they learned to kill.

And it’s important to note their Algerian heritage because France occupied Algeria as recently as 1962 when it gained independence from France. Their parents didn’t immigrate from Algeria to France in a vacuum.

This was blowback.

And why were their parents in France and not Algeria? Why did they have to leave their homes to raise their children in France?

Because of French colonialism in Algeria! Because their country was underdeveloped and used as a source of cheap labor and resources and subjected to the horrors of a military occupation by a colonial power! You can’t just isolate immigration in a vacuum without analyzing the impacts of imperialism and colonialism on migration.

Which is why we need to help them, instead of just leaving them to suffer in their sickness until they hurt themselves or others.

That means removing them from their environment, reeducating them out of bad habits and unhealthy thought patterns, and teaching them new healthier cognitive habits. You just oppose reeducation camps because the term is yucky, but there’s nothing wrong with rehabilitation facilities. We don’t have to leave racists to suffer with their afflictions. They can be helped.

Racism is not a right. It’s a sickness.

Well we can’t just kill them!

Crackkkers don’t know any better, we can help them overcome their racist upbringings.

Go read up on what the French did in Algeria and you might understand why some Algerians might want to kill French racists.

The shooting wasn’t merely about the freedom of satire. Not really. Let’s complicate the story.

The Kouachi brothers were Algerian and you can’t ignore the history of French colonialism in Algeria as the antecedent to this attack. This isn’t just about secularism and blasphemy, that’s only the surface. It’s about racism and colonialism and imperialism. Don’t think of this only as religious fanatics angry because infidels insulted the Prophet Mohammad, think of this as an oppressed racial group lashing out at a racist society and it being channeled through Islam. There’s a deeper tension here than just the religious surface.

Now, as for my opinion?

Racist satire should be illegal and that racists should be put into reeducation camps to be rehabilitated.

Also! Adventurism is bad and people should get organized into a Party, not do vigilante attacks on racists.

We are products of our material conditions, yeah, there’s no inherent evilness - it’s a learned behavior.

Which is why I support reeducation and rehabilitation for these hungry ghosts. 👍

Oh I’m not saying they’re like, a different species of human or anything. This is just what being rich does to people.

They never experience that period where they have to settle for less. They always get more, and so they always want more. It’s the way their brains have been trained to expect rewards. Someone like me, who is happy using older stuff and waiting for the prices to come down, has been trained to live this way. Someone like them, who always wants the best and most expensive, was also trained to live that way. They become hungry ghosts because of their lifestyles.

Normal people don’t desire more at all times. They’ll be happy for a while before setting their eyes on the next goal.

These hungry ghosts, though, never experience that period of contentment. That moment of happiness where they achieve what they want and can rest never comes, not even for a second. As soon as they get what they want they already want more. In fact, it’s probably more accurate to say they don’t even have goals. They only want more.

No, actually, normal people can settle. That doesn’t mean they don’t treat themselves “once in a while” or sometimes crave something special or set new goals when they complete one, but they don’t need more more more all the time. They can have periods of contentment. I know I do.

But there are some people who always want more. They never are satisfied, not even for a second. As soon as they get something they want they’re already bored with it and want the next best thing. It’s a hedonic treadmill that gets faster and faster, they’re never happy.

There is no end game. They’re hungry ghosts.

They just want an ever increasing “more”

You’re probably half your dad too!

That’s the most common situation anyway

Well am I supposed to do it in the hallway? Be reasonable!

This fuckin sucks lol

Just call em Amerikkkans.

Gotta learn to roll your K’s

The Euro is just financial imperialism, whereby powerful Eurozone countries get to control the economies of weaker members.

If you don’t support indigenous resistance to occupation, you’re on the side of the occupation. There is no center.