• Socsa
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    7 months ago

    The US isn’t half as bad Lemmy makes it out to be.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah as a non American I think a lot is it is because most of Europe ignores its problems - you’ll hear endless stuff about racism in America but very little about it In France so it feels like the US is worse but France is way way more racist, like absurdly so.

      • maniii@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        I heard that during COVID lockdowns, couples in Paris parks were left-alone if they were caucasian while the non-caucasians we beaten by the cops without any warning whatsoever.

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        7 months ago

        That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard today.

    • w2tpmf@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      They said New York, not the US. New York is it’s whole own little world. And it’s pretty raw.