Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Why France is declaring Josephine Baker a national hero - BBC News" video.

  1. She was courageous. Unlike many of the French she risked her life for.
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  2.  @corydorastube  So Vichy France did NOT collaborate with Germany?
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  3.  @spongeBob77086  The Americans did not withdraw from Vietnam out of cowardice but because it was politically no longer expedient to remain. Arguably, an even worse reason, but almost 60,000 incredibly brave young men gave their lives. Vichy France sold out its countrymen, spat on their sacrifice and joined the enemy. That's not a stereotype - it's a fact.
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  4.  @diavoloda981  I don't hate the French. I hate Macron. I hate the French who collaborated during WW2.
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  5.  @talideon  Those who forget history are destined to repeat it. Apparently you have chronic amnesia.
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  6.  @corydorastube  I was talking about Vichy France. The VIDEO talked about her helping the resistance during that period. When French people were betraying their own. My argument was valid - your comprehension is clearly not. You're dismissed.
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  7.  @spongeBob77086  Cowardice and politics are not mutually exclusive, but with Vietnam, it was not out of fear of military loss that the US withdrew, but political loss. The decision of America to withdraw from Vietnam was about the polical SURVIVAL of the administration which saw its popularity plumetting amidst footage of bodybags and a surging student anti-war protest movement at home. Their withdrawal, while wasteful of the lives already lost, spared many more. With France, the capitulation to an INVADING army was not done for purely political gain, but out of a desire for existential survival, but that surrender led to MORE deaths. It was the antithesis of what America did, and for entirely the wrong reasons, not least because it betrayed OTHER FRENCH PEOPLE, to say nothing of the alliance forces. Whether you describe that as politics or something else, the fact remains that when others were fighting and dying FOR FRENCH people, a large part of France rolled on its back and surrendered.
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