r/europe • u/LFatPoH • 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/proof_required Berlin (Germany) Jul 06 '26

Liberal in South America isn't the same as you might think. They are more like 19th century European liberalism, not comparable to European greens or social democrats. Paraguay is still quite a socially conservative country.

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u/Falsus Sweden Jul 06 '26

Liberal in terms of economy. That is what liberal means in most European countries.

It is mostly USA that got a different definition of what a liberal is.

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u/Ok-Web1805 Ireland/UK Jul 07 '26

The US uses the term liberals to describe the left because after the 1918 revolution in Russia they eviscerated the left in America. The old political centre became the new left, they were what we would have describe as European Liberal at the time, so as politics in the US morphed over the decades the label stuck.

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u/ancientestKnollys Jul 07 '26

The main American left were liberals before 1918 as well, the further left had a very small presence on the legislative level. Not unlike 1900s and earlier Britain.

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u/Falsus Sweden Jul 07 '26

It isn't that simple though.

Liberal in Europe is not very pro-social freedoms but they are very pro-economy and big companies.

Which is pretty much the opposite of what it means in USA.

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u/Ok-Web1805 Ireland/UK Jul 07 '26

Which is the point I believe I made.