As a french i can tell you we definitely treat migrants as kings. they have food, homes, they never go to jail because " muh murder is normal in their culture ", they have welfares etc. I almost wonder why they go to britain seeing how much better than us locals they are treated here
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Right… a Frenchman who uses American English and notably speaks with contempt about “welfare” which the French call something different: Protection Sociale or social protection and hold in high regard as basic right. Repeating American conservative scare chords dependent on American ignorance of foreigners rather than the scare chords used by French conservatives and also quite ironically pulling a reversal on how they view the issue of multiculturalism vis-a-vis the English-speaking world.
Also, France is quite notorious throughout Europe for how badly they treat most immigrants and how much contempt they have for individual cultures demanding they conform to French norms with a ferocity that outstrips even America who at least pay some lip service to the idea of being a melting pot. Something especially pronounced in their attitudes when dealing with those from countries formerly colonized by France, which even today a lot of French politicians refuse to recognize as ever having been countries to begin with, fearing that they themselves might be colonized and denying formal citizenship to such people and their descendants even after generations living in France.
Even somebody coming from France who finds it all just the normal way things are would have to be working pretty hard not to see a deliberate singling out and exclusion of migrants from French society, an exclusion to the point police and the normally sacrosanct medical services simply don’t bother with calls from many of these increasingly boxed in migrant communities which are noticeably declining into slums though most Frenchmen are reluctant to call them ghettos... mostly on the basis that it sounds too American and it’s not just black people or any one race that are confined there. And “don’t bother with calls” from these communities is a far cry from being immune to arrest, indeed once one toe leaves these “sensitive districts” scrutiny is constant and arrest can for come any reason or none at all. Although America still takes the cake on that front with the added danger of summary execution.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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