Got a French flag on your Facebook profile? Congratulations on your corporate white supremacy
 

If you?ve been on Facebook since last Friday?s attacks in Paris, you could be forgiven for thinking you?d stumbled into the Front National?s image bank ? the social media site is currently hosting a flood of French flags, applied via a function enabled by Facebook in the immediate aftermath of the attacks which is, frankly, deeply problematic.

So you want to show solidarity with France ? specifically, with those killed in Paris this weekend. If you?re a British person who wants to do that because you feel sympathy and sadness for people who are brutally massacred, regardless of their nationality, then fine. I just hope that you also change your profile picture to a different country?s flag every time people are wrongly killed as the result of international conflicts ? for example, during the attack on Beirut in Lebanon just the day before.

In the west, we?re all too often taught to buy into Euro-centrism and to readily accept corporate branding initiatives in the guise of human kindness. Facebook?s use of the flag, as well as the new use of its Safety Check feature in the wake of the Paris attacks ? the first time it has been used for an act of conflict rather than a natural disaster ? is an example of both of these.

Euro-centrism - a worldview which centres and places overemphasised importance on the West - reinforces its supremacy through actions like these. And there?s no ignoring the fact that this stems from European colonisation. How deeply ironic, considering that the colonisation of the Middle East and wars carried out in Muslim lands put down the roots for extremist groups such as Isis.

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i didn't change mine, looks so stupid

I hope the people who did it will be putting other flags there for whoever's had the latest 'terror' attack

lol, idiotic, stupid ... i mean those who are strictly against it ... why nobody have russian flag after the airplane crash? because people do not know sure it was terrorist attack so far, and also, nobody iniciated putting russian flag on facebook. the same with all others, nobody fucking iniciated putting some sierra leone or iraq or syrian flag anywhere, because people there do not care, or are without ideas how to support, that is why, it is not that people who now wants to support france are laughing at all other disasters, but nobody fucking told them to put there flag when 50people die in bomb attack in syria! why you stupid fuckers who now cry against putting france flag, did not put the fucking syrian flag on your facebook? fucking crybabies who have no brain but must be more sheeps than those who are sheeps with flags in their profiles ... get a fucking life you idiots, short brain idiots ... sorry, enough is enough :)

Europe is one continent, i live in Europe so it is normal to support those who live only 500 km away or for the English across the channel.

It is no different then when every one in the US out their support for new york, or denver and many other incidents. I am sure every continent has its habits like this.

and this is exactly another reason, exactly just forgot to put that in my previous post as i got pissed off :) :thumbsup

lol, you sir, is more sheep by sharing all this shit, ignorant who will not support just to be strong and not sheep with flag, but you are the same sheep sharing this anti sheep shit :) :winkwink: :upsidedow

Maybe if the event in Paris wasn't a false flag I'd feel differently, but that event in Paris was 100% another false flag event brought to us by our own rulers, just like 9/11 and London 7/7

hehe lol yeah, i am off this topic for some smoke, it will make me more clever than this thread :)

Can you point out some non false flag attacks or are they all false flag

Not all, but some obviously are, like 9/11 and 7/7

Have you looked into 9/11 before?

Why did this building collapse?

Sounds like an article written by someone from Beirut. No one cares about Beirut.

you are by far the biggest sheep for blindly following sketchy Youtube videos :2 cents:

Well said :thumbsup

Have you got the French flag on your Facebook profile MaDalton?

So when Facebook did it for Marriage Equality, what were we supporting then?
It's a pretty new feature as far as I know and there will be more flags in the future.
If you had done just a bit of research , you would have also found out the front national Logo is a flame, and not a flag.

Right now, you just look like a troll that copy paste news articles for sig views... pathetic :Oh crap

Unbelievable.

No judgment. Every one does as he pleased to do. It's measured by a WTF-meter if you were curious to ask.

WHP got a question for you.

So 911, 7/7, Paris, all false flags right ?

I suppose you will add Boston, Sandy Hook, and anything else that takes your fancy.

But the question is how far do you go back ?

Pre internet ?

WWII ?

WWI even ?

How long have THEY been controlling us for ?

I didn't change mine, but I am going to now and use this photo! :1orglaugh

You're quoting the mirror? :1orglaugh
You should probably consider a donkey for your Facebook pic.

nope

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I was born in Europe. I was raised in Europe. I went to school in Europe and the US. All my life, I have studied maps with a Euro centric view. To me, it is obvious that Europe comes first, a combination of money and old history. The rest of the world might not like it, but a Western life (US included), will be valued and treasured higher than any other. Europe and the US will continue to be the leaders of the world, for at least one more generation.