Emphasis addedFrance's Macron takes heat after saying he wants to 'piss off' the unvaccinated
French President Emmanuel Macron is being condemned by political opponents following an interview this week in which he employed a vulgarity to say he wants to aggravate people who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
"The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off," Macron told Le Parisien. "And so, we're going to continue doing so until the end. That's the strategy."
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Macron also called unvaccinated people "irresponsible" and said such people "are no longer citizens."
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"No health emergency justifies such words," said Bruno Retailleau, head of the right-wing Les Républicains in the Senate, according to France24. "Emmanuel Macron says he has learned to love the French, but it seems he especially likes to despise them. We can encourage vaccination without insulting anyone or pushing them to radicalization."
I wonder what a real leader (as in, a Jocko Willink type) would think of this rhetoric and it's effectiveness in achieving the desired outcome.