Justice enfin:

[jrittenhouse]

A French court has ruled that the Vichy government of France during World War II was instrumental in the handing over of Jews and others to the Nazis for extermination camps.

Calling for a “formal admission of the state’s responsibility and of the prejudice collectively suffered”, the court said it had concluded that acts such as the arrest,

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[supergee]

I am not going to join the French bashing over this. I am not going to join the Muslim bashing over the guy who decapitated his wife.

[jrittenhouse]

In neither case is this (at least for me) bashing the French or Muslims.

I think that the people that have a dual reality are the real problem in both cases. The decapitator was trying in his public existence to get out from under Muslim stereotypes, and reverted to anger and violence when his wife wouldn't go along with him - to the point of you-can't-leave-me-you-must-die extreme violence, right straight out of tribal hoohah and women-as-complaint-property stuff.

In France, the politicians that said 'we were not involved' denied the reality of past behaviour. You see this in many countries, not just France - in Japan, Germany, Russia, China, and in the USA. They can't learn from the horrors and the mistakes of the past because they can't look, don't want to look.

I don't blame an entire nation, an entire race for anything. I do feel that the point of remembering history is to factually understand the past, and what it can teach us about ourselves as we are and how we can do better in the future.