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By Richard Greeman
Since the Yellow Vests have no recognized spokespersons, government
propaganda, abetted by the media, has had a free hand to dehumanize them
to justify treating them inhumanly. Macron, from the height of his
monarchical presidency, at first pretended to ignore their uprising,
then attempted to buy them off with crumbs (a very few crumbs which were
rejected) and then denounced them as “a hate-filled mob.” (N.B. In real
life the Yellow Vests are largely middle-aged low-income folks with
families from the provinces whose trade-mark is friendliness and
improvised barbeques.) Yet for Macron and the media they constitute a
hard-core conspiracy of “40,000 militants of the extreme right and the
extreme left” often characterized as “anti-Semites,” who threaten the
Republic.
Small wonder that, subjected to increasing violence and continuous
slander, the numbers of Yellow Vests willing to go out into the streets
to protest every week has diminished over 27 weeks. But they are still
out there and their favorite chant goes: “Here we are! Here we are!
What if Macron doesn’t like it? Here we are!” (On est là! Même si Macron
ne veut pas, On est là!)
full: https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/yellow-vests-six-months-later/
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