It's not about the kids 😅....
Comment on French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors
network_switch@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
They don’t want kids to know too well how their government operates domestically and internationally. Don’t want kids to learn history much better than the watered down version they learn in school
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
They’re the oppressed minority whose lack of rights is enabling these laws
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That doesn’t seem to be the primary reason to me, given I went to french high school, and they didn’t shy away from talking about the shitty stuff france did and does.
network_switch@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
It’s an entirely different level of learning from fairly dry school and footage of massacres, slave mines/plantations-housing, exploring granular data of fatalities (age, civilian or freedom fighter), volume of rape, changes in life expectancy, images of indentured farmers dealing with famine as food is exported. Not a single country tries hard to convey just how terrible life was for generations of people under colonial rule. Not a single colonial country is treating their past leaders in their schools history books as they would treat Hitler when they should be. I regularly hear the delusion that post-WW2 was a peaceful transition for post colonialism as if Algeria and Vietnam weren’t millions of lives taken. That the decades after WW2 wasn’t western backed coup after coup, assassination after assassination. The US and Russia are post-WW2’s most prominent imperialist. 3rd place would be France across southeast Asia to the present in Africa though that coercive power waning