Be grateful, we loathe you!

This is where I rant. 

That man considers himself as genuinely superior to me.

 

His name is Christian Vanneste. He’s a MP for the Nord region in France and belongs to the wonderful party Sarkozy is the leader of: UMP. An ever populist party whose baseline is: “Let’s be frank, openly intolerant and violent in words because that’s the way the People is”.

Christian Vanneste is one of the main reasons I can’t wait to leave that country of mine. First, as a historian because that man came up with a law in 2005 that stated we now would have to teach an official history in school when it comes to colonisation in order “ to show the positive side of French colonisation, especially in Northern Africa". 

An official history to make us look wonderful, erase all the crimes, the torture and the fact that we basically just came up one day, brought everyone down to slavery, servants and animals because they were different hence "inferior". We supposedly bought everything to those poor ignorant people who were living in nothing with nothing, like the USA are convinced they are doing with the Middle East today. And we only “left” after they got fed up and rebelled. But we didn’t just leave, we made sure we would torture, slaughter and destroy the most we could before.

That’s history like it’s taught in dictatorship or the US: let’s use it to make us feel like we are born the “Good Guys”.

Luckily, France cringed and rebelled as well. And that law was repealed in 2006. Yes! It took a whole year for the Président de la République to act and the Constitutional Council to realise there should be no such law to say what’s good to teach or not when it comes to a crucial like History.

Mainly, the Right moved because the situation was becoming embarrassing. Not because they were betraying everything the French Revolution was about or they were once again very good at pointing fingers at others’ mistakes while absolving our own in a nutshell. But because, firstly, France’s former colonies that are now districts within the country were starting to riot, the population was hugely hostile; and secondly Paris wanted to be the leader to its brand new scheme for stronger links between Europe and Africa but the latter’s countries refused to sign anything anymore!

But bottom-line, it moved people and we repealed it. 

What we didn’t repeal or complain about is the next brilliant thing on the agenda of that man: “Homosexual behavior a threat to the survival of humanity, and "morally inferior" to heterosexuality”.

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Sure, there was a minor outcry and he was trialed and punished but the judgment was overruled and now that man is still as the National Assembly, parading proudly among his peers who openly called us, gay people, the exact same names Hitler and Göbbels used for the Jews. 

And nobody’s moving. He was not summoned. He was not removed. That’s just everyday life. A MP is calling me “inferior” to him, to others just because I’m gay but that’s just another day in glorious insufferable France. 

Christian Vanneste is one of the main reasons why I want to leave France but he’s useful, somehow. Because he and all his friends at UMP are here to always remind me that I’m not welcomed in my country even if they demand I love and serve this very country.

Why would I want to do that when that country doesn’t want me and treat me like shit?