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"We're living in crazy times. It feels like Nazi Germany," Madonna said in an interview to Europe 1 radio, adding that the situation in Europe is scary.
The 56-year-old singer also pointed that France has totally lost its tradition of welcoming diversity and honoring freedom, saying that "anti-Semitism is at an all-time high" in the country.
"It [France] was a country that embraced everyone and encouraged freedom in every way, shape or form artistic expression of freedom Now that's completely gone.
http://rt.com/news/236027-madonna-europe-nazi-germany/
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Why celebrities get their opinions published is beyond me.
Snow Leopard
(348 posts)n/t
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yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)was in her 90's... must be all that plastic Surgery
onehandle
(51,122 posts)I can't help but think that the GOPNRAteahadists have something to do with this.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)but wonder if Europeans are being fed the same style propaganda as we are here. I mean, Rupert Murdoch has all but bought up most of the popular media in England (as he and his fellow Libertarians have done in the U.S.) and it's just a tiny effort and pretty cost-effective to infiltrate and buy up the popular media in the smaller countries in Europe.
CEOs in Europe look to "that shining city on the hill", the United States, and think, "Hey! It's hugely profitable for CEOs there, and it's working fabulously there, so why not do it here, as well?"
I haven't done any real research to back up my theory, but I can't help but think that the information citizens of Europe are getting isn't being skewed in some way because Europeans are generally very liberal...but there's a noticeable change in demeanor and political view happening that's beginning to alarm me.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)And were sending Jews to the death camps again.
You can learn a lot listening to celebrities.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)The woman quoted did not say it was like Vichy France but like Nazi Germany. Not sure what you see as inaccurate.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Shoah is a word that I'm conversant with for instance and I know it refers to an extended process not a single example of maximum savagery.
France has yet to experience a Kristallnacht in the modern era to the best of my knowledge.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)were put in place in 1935 - long before the concentration camps became a reality. You may want to get educated on what it was like for Jews long before they were shipped to the death camps.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)She just never hung out in places where she'd see it.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Where demanding more democracy makes you a foreign agitator bent on toppling the russian government.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)an effing idiot.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Not a valid comparison. Let me know when Merkel embraces antisemitism
Avalux
(35,015 posts)I hate it when celebrities with a microphone say stupid shit like this. She's a mess.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)insult to the actual victims of Nazi Germany.
Anti-semitism in France is NOT at an "all-time high". Google the 'Dreyfus Affair' to get a sense of when it was worse.
What a moron she is.
Karmadillo
(9,253 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)Le Pen, RT?
The French far rights cosiness with Vladimir Putins Russia is back in the spotlight as Marine Le Pens party confirms it borrowed nine million euros from a Russian lender, saying no one else will give us a cent.
Frances far-right National Front (FN) said Sunday it had borrowed the money from Moscow-based First Czech Russian Bank (FRCB), confirming a report by the investigative news website Mediapart.
The party treasurer Wallerand de Saint-Just told France Info radio a deal was signed with the Russian lender in September.
Saint-Just said the party had received a first installment of two million euros.
http://www.france24.com/en/20141123-france-far-right-turns-russian-lender-national-front-marine-le-pen/
I can't find that news item on RT, oddly enough.
Reter
(2,188 posts)She was born in 1956.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)spot-on.
There HAS been rising intolerance in Europe.
I don't see how anyone can dispute that.
But, people just like to hate on Madonna, it seems.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)USA. I am very aware that hatred and economic woes led to WWII but I do not think we have reached that level yet. Or a least I hope not.
What I am afraid of is where this could all lead us to. Born in 1941 - been there once do not want to do it over.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)uhnope
(6,419 posts)anything to cast dispersions on the west
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)as an authority on the subject of anti-Semitism or the current state of freedom of expression in Europe. Really, the very idea is lol.
Freedom of expression is completely gone? What the fuck was "Je Suis Charlie" all about, Madonna?