Comment by well_ackshually
1 day ago
France used to make plenty of lists. We loved lists. Lists are good. Jews lists? Sure, it's maybe useful one day when we want to do something.
Boy were the Germans happy to find these.
The American obsession with asking for people their perceived origins (AAPI, AA, Latino, ...) is more than weird: it's downright dangerous. Don't fucking ask these questions, and never, ever write it down, especially not with names.
Thankfully, now they can just buy it from data brokers and let Palantir target, so that makes life easier for them
France knows very little about managing a post-colonial multiracial society (except for terribly), I would appreciate if y'all listened and learned or at least approached the issue with more humility. France has serious racial, colonial, Muslim, immigrant, and banlieue inequalities, but its refusal to officially measure race/ethnicity makes those inequalities harder to see, litigate, quantify, or remedy.
Considering the last time we made lists of people's origins, it was used by the nazis and that there's a chance for the neonazis in 2027: no, thank you.
Knowing someone is algerian, muslim or black doesn't help you fix inequalities. It doesn't help in the US, or anywhere else in the world. Racial statistics are useless. We know where poverty is.