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.
Did the retirement age increase by two years in France after the protests?
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.