Disgusting statement of #Tunisia's presidency at a National Security Council meeting portraying post-2011 programs aimed at settling black African migrants in Tunisia as a conspiracy to make the country "a purely African country with no affiliation with the Arab and Islamic… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 
Saied's anti-black immigrants' campaign has already started. Simultaneously with deploying security forces on the ground, many have noticed the rapid spread of racist content on social media, indicating the potential existence of a deliberate propaganda campaign.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
These ideas and policies are perfectly consistent with Saied's scapegoating strategies. After putting all the blame on his domestic opponents and depicting them as traitors and conspirators, he's now attacking immigrants using the old tropes associating black people with violence… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Yes, and change didn't just happen at the legal level. Democracy, which many people are not bashing, gave black Tunisians and immigrants the possibility to organize in a way authoritarianism didn't.
https://twitter.com/sh_grewal/status/1628149342677700612?s=20
I recommend reading this interview with @ZiedRouine on the progress made during the years preceding Saied's coup.
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