I watched a Jacob Geller video just now that talked about the Nuremberg trials; apparently they explicitly forbade tu quoque as defense because…like yeah, the US, the UK and France were all monstrous in the present day and committing similar atrocities as the Nazis.
For reference, France was conducting nuclear tests in Algeria between 1960 and 1962 and had planted more mines than the entire population of Algeria, and this is the stuff they’d done after ww2, never mind the stuff they did prior and during. African troops had helped free the French from the Nazis, but putting aside the shameful display of not allowing them to parade through France after helping liberate them, they went on to deny them the pensions they’d earned and then killed those of them who protested it in their African colonies; they killed African troops who saved them from speaking German and just being a nation of toadying manservants. Many, many decades later, France’s current president Macron would say of Africa that gratitude was a disease of which Africans weren’t afflicted with. Some articles on Macron’s views:
And the reddit post that helped me find the first article and made me wish I could telepathically bash people with a psychic mallet (warning, be prepared to read some of the stupidest posts you’ve ever seen):
I watched a Jacob Geller video just now that talked about the Nuremberg trials; apparently they explicitly forbade tu quoque as defense because…like yeah, the US, the UK and France were all monstrous in the present day and committing similar atrocities as the Nazis.
For reference, France was conducting nuclear tests in Algeria between 1960 and 1962 and had planted more mines than the entire population of Algeria, and this is the stuff they’d done after ww2, never mind the stuff they did prior and during. African troops had helped free the French from the Nazis, but putting aside the shameful display of not allowing them to parade through France after helping liberate them, they went on to deny them the pensions they’d earned and then killed those of them who protested it in their African colonies; they killed African troops who saved them from speaking German and just being a nation of toadying manservants. Many, many decades later, France’s current president Macron would say of Africa that gratitude was a disease of which Africans weren’t afflicted with. Some articles on Macron’s views:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4xej8n7wxo
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/20/emmanuel-macron-swears-amid-furious-exchange-with-cyclone-hit-mayotte-islanders
And the reddit post that helped me find the first article and made me wish I could telepathically bash people with a psychic mallet (warning, be prepared to read some of the stupidest posts you’ve ever seen):
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hvpgiw/frances_president_emmanuel_macron_accused_of/
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