Yes the Olympics ceremony etc, but as a french person I want y'all to remember our country allowed this only for its reputation and is being awfully hypocrit.
They deplaced homeless people from Paris to other cities so they wouldn't be seen by tourists.
They put students in the streets to give their apartments to the police and athletes, students who have been complaining for years that their homes were unsanitary, and they never fixed it until the police had to use it.
They forbid people in mental health hospitals to go outside for the whole time of the Olympics.
They forbid hijabis for the athletes.
Israel was allowed into the competition, and even worse, they collaborated with their police, the same that is guilty from horrible acts.
Rapist athletes were allowed to participate.
The government paid billions of euros for this, but somehow they pretend they "don't have" the few millions necessary to improve the life of the people in general.
They completely ignored all questions of ecology regarding the event even tho the consequences were awful.
They installed abusive video surveillance.
They exploited the workers on the constructions, people DIED.
They raised the prices of housing and transportations near the event despite saying they wouldn't.
And without even it being about the Olympics, not even a few weeks ago, there was a rise of aggressions and attacks by the far right against all kind of minorities, and all of the main medias were on their side. Our government is currently, and has been for years actually, in the process of normalizing really dangerous and extreme ideas, taking rights away from minorities a little more everyday.
Don't be fooled. This ceremony is sprinkles in the eyes. Performative activism— not necessarily from the people in the ceremony, but from the government.
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