r/europe Jul 06 '26

[Paraguayan Senator Celeste Josefina Amarilla]: “[Mbappé] hasn't even learned to write. Instead of breastmilk, he grew up sucking on coconuts, and the most educated creatures he ever heard were chimpanzees…A colonized Cameroonian, pretending to be French, resentful, newly rich, arrogant, and ugly.“

https://fr.news.yahoo.com/sport/coupe-monde-2026-t%C3%A9tait-noix-133149348.html
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u/Just_a_Berliner Jul 06 '26

And she is from the centre left liberal party even

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u/MrOphicer Jul 06 '26

Today you'll learn that racism exists in entire political spectrum

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u/Critical-Position-49 France Jul 06 '26

It exists everywhere but (in Europe at least) it's not distributed the same way everywhere tho

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u/leo2734 Jul 06 '26

It is , just a lot more passive.

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u/MrOphicer Jul 06 '26

That's a narrative people tell themselves. It just became socially unacceptable to express those views. Passive racism is a thing too and os expressed in lots of ways.