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Even as someone against the death penalty, hard disagree. Sometimes when a bastard fascist shows you their colors...
Look, I know that France can be an isolating place even if you are wearing a French hat, but they do have some spicy ideas about how to handle certain problems.
Until those ideas lead to an Emperor that tries to take over Europe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
This?
People don't understand. They think of the romanticized version where a bunch of rich people got killed. They don't understand it was an entire civil war featuring mass murder of civilians from all levels of society.
Lack of education. I am not French but learned about this in school. History is important so we don't repeat mistakes from the past.
Some may think whatever happened some 250 years ago in France is irrelevant. I'll use this quote from the Wikipedia article to illustrate (keep in mind the estimated number of victims is even higher) :
"During the Reign of Terror, at least 300,000 suspects were arrested; 17,000 were officially executed, and perhaps 10,000 died in prison or without trial."
That's a little over 1% of the population (about 28 million) arrested and 0,06% executed. In the US today this would equal to 3.320.000 arrested and 199.200 executed.
And what worries me even more is there are people who look at this and think it's fine.
They think it's fine because they think they'll be on the winning side.
Which is funny considering the main figure of the Reign of Terror himself ended up losing his head in 1794.