By The Daily Caller (Opinion) | Created at 2024-11-25 23:33:23 | Updated at 2024-11-27 12:28:40
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November 25, 2024 4:18 PM ET
Is France’s Emmanuel Macron … based?
The French President made some comments that, well, let’s just say if President-elect Donald Trump said the same, the entire international media would call him a vicious white supremacist. Of course, the simple observational truth is nothing of the sort. Haiti is, in fact, a “shithole,” as Trump pointed out. And it seems Macron agrees.
“It is the Haitians who killed Haiti by letting in drug trafficking,” Macron explained on a state trip in Brazil. (Watch Daily Caller documentary ‘Lawless’ here)
“The Prime Minister was great. I defended him, and they fired him. It’s terrible. It’s terrible. I can’t replace him. They are completely dumb,” he continued.
In his latest display of neocolonial arrogance, Macron blames Haitians for ‘killing Haiti,’ calling them ‘dumb.’
Are we ignoring centuries of French colonization and Western intervention that systematically undermined the nation’s development? pic.twitter.com/jd1OaJxUWD
— RT (@RT_com) November 24, 2024
First off, the idea that Macron is broadly calling Haitian people “dumb” is as twisted as it is asinine. He’s saying that ousting the Prime Minister was a politically dumb move — obviously. And there’s no shortage of political stupidity in his own country either.
Second, what he’s saying is obviously true. Leftists want to blame France for the sorry state of Haiti today. But France left Haiti to its own devices over two hundred years ago, and despite untold billions of humanitarian aid pouring in for decades, the country is little better — and probably much worse — than where it started. Over the same time period, China went from colonial hovel to the most technologically advanced dictatorship in the history of the world. Israel went from barren desert to nuclear power, and even the former slave territory of the Cayman Islands became an international banking paradise.
What’s Haiti’s excuse?
