Brigitte Bardot is dead

[muriel_volestrangler]

37. "Ignorance"? Convicted 5 times of inciting racial hatred. 30 years of support for the far right

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.

Brigitte Bardot, the actress, was known for Le Mépris (Contempt); Bardot, the political figure, embodied racial hatred. Convicted five times for inciting racial hatred, Bardot remained, for three decades, an exception in French culture – the only celebrity to openly defend the far right. In the 1990s, after withdrawing from film sets, the star adopted those views and married Bernard d'Ormale, adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-right Front National (FN), the precursor to today’s Rassemblement National. He remained her husband until the end of her life.

In her hostility toward immigration and her nostalgia for a France she believed lost, she shared common ground with Alain Delon, another icon of the golden age of French cinema. But unlike Delon, Bardot multiplied Islamophobic remarks. Once an embodiment of women's freedom, her rejection of social conventions drove her, after her acting career, to push the boundaries of what could be said, wavering between a taste for provocation and outright racism.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2025/12/28/brigitte-bardot-s-30-years-of-sympathy-for-the-far-right_6748895_15.html#

No, it DOES matter what she did in her life. Death is not some absolution of all the evil that someone did. Did you complain when people pointed out the awful things Pinochet had done, when he died? Did you say about Saddam Hussein "it doesn't matter what he did, he loved his sons"? Do you intend to moan when people will remember the evil of Trump when he snuffs it?

People posting reminders here of her views are spreading knowledge. It's you, who want them to shut up, who are supporting "ignorance".