Brigitte Bardot's 30 years of sympathy for the far right Convicted five times for racist remarks, the actress – whose foundation announced her death on Sunday, December 28 – remained one of the only French celebrities to openly embrace far-right views. Curious.
I never knew any of this... Previously I only heard about her animal welfare work, donations and lobbying. Married to Jean Le Pens right hand advisor. Wow. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-brigitte-bardot/
I’m guessing you mean old far right as opposed to new far right. New far right is mildly conservative
Food for thoughts… "This is where we are. Some calmly explain that paying tribute to Brigitte Bardot is like paying tribute to Hitler or Pétain. This is no longer a debate. It's an intellectual and moral decline. One can criticize Bardot. One can challenge her statements. But to compare a woman, an actress, a symbol of freedom, to criminals responsible for millions of deaths is to lose all sense of history. When everything becomes Hitler, nothing is Hitler anymore. When everything is Pétain, memory is trampled. A mature country knows how to hold two things at once: its heritage and its mistakes, its greatness and its limitations. A feverish country transforms every death into an ideological trial. It's not Bardot who is damaging France. It's this moral hysteria, this mob that confuses judgment with lynching."
