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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Consider Foucault's boomerang. I'm no expert on French police but it sounds like they've been influenced by colonial practices designed to surpress dissent in their in their colonies like just about every other colonial power, so their own country essentially becomes an occupied colony to suppress dissent at home. So no ****ing wonder if minority groups respond poorly to police and governmental policies that probably treat them even more like uppity natives than the traditional French natives.
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Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire have written about the "boomerang theory" when Foucault was still a graduate student with severe mental problems and zero publications (moreover, it was coined by some Russian Trotskyist during WWII). MF has like one paragraph about this in a lecture course first published in 1997, where he acknowledges the boomerang theory amid constructing a very different one. Maybe you mixed it up with Foucault's Pendulum?
Regardless, it's cool you know it. More people should.