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Even if none of them turn out to be from the banlieue the issues will be conflated, like they always are.

Just as, if none turn out to have been part of the immigrant wave, it will be conflated with that and the open borders issue.

Politics can be irrational even at the best of times, and this isn't the best of times...

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Already in my Facebook feed I'm quoting information from 'slau because people are saying that the attackers are definitely immigrants because Syrian passport, while carefully ignoring the "French and the fingerprints" angle.

Is this french person Muslim? With immigration background?

If both answers are "no", you are right about selective blindness. If not, it is you who are ignoring an angle.

Technically, this comment is factually correct and also it is spot on. Some people trying to defend some ethnic groups in this thread are hypocrites.

> Politics can be irrational even at the best of times, and this isn't the best of times...

The people and institutions pushing these confusions and trying to signal who The Real Enemy is know exactly what they're doing.

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