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The Word Is Désavouez
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Okay, people, you're gonna have to help me here. How hard is it to flat out repudiate vile and racist/anti-Semitic/misogynistic/xenophobic statements that someone else made if it threatens to be ascribed to you, too? I mean, what, you go on TV and say "I disagree with that and I don't want to associate with that and it's wrong and I will not defend it," right? This comes up with Trump at times, and it's happening with Marine LePen, who has sorta-kinda tried to disassociate herself from her father's taint, but she took the leadership of the National Front regardless. And she claimed to have steered the party to a less flat-out anti-Semitic, racist, xenophobic stance before resigning to run for President. But now we have a past interview by the guy who replaced her as head of the party, saying that he thinks the Nazis couldn't have used Zyklon B., citing technical reasons that are, of course, bullsh-t. That's pretty much anti-Semitic on its face. Another party official just last month questioned the Holocaust. And LePen herself tried that tortured argument that France during the War didn't collaborate with the Germans, because that "was not France." Uh, yeah, the Vichy regime WAS France. No comment from LePen or the National Front yet. One might think they aren't inclined to disagree with any of those comments. (Washington Post)
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