Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
Mubashir, who moved to the United States as a small boy and became a naturalized American citizen, said that he stepped onto a sidewalk near 4th Street and Cedar Avenue during his lunch break when two masked men approached him. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is the heart of the city’s Somali American community.
In France if tuition is raised 2% or retirement age raised by 2 years, the entire country empties into the streets and life comes to a halt.
Here, just bitch online until distracted by the next episode of It.
Do people lose any semblance of a safety net if they lose their job in France? No? They won’t die of uncontrolled medical problems or see their child starve because they decided to stand up and make a point?
Not exactly comparable, then, is it?
How do you think they got to that point.
And reaching that point means they don’t lose their jobs over protesting.
Did the retirement age increase by two years in France after the protests?