• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 months ago

    I actually like French as a language. But, like German humor, apparently France is no laughing matter.

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      4 months ago

      It’s not the laughing about France that gets me, it’s the over-generalization about all French people from a few encounters with shitty people. Every country has people like that.

      Yet all I see is hate, probably a result of gullible people guzzling propaganda from the US after France refused to help in the 2003 Iraq war.

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        4 months ago

        Yet all I see is hate, probably a result of gullible people guzzling propaganda from the US after France refused to help in the 2003 Iraq war.

        Lord.

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          4 months ago

          Wouldn’t expect you to understand, they don’t teach you about propaganda in American history lessons.

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            4 months ago

            If you think the stereotype of French haughtiness doesn’t predate 2003, I don’t know what to tell you.

            Using the ‘uneducated American’ stereotype doesn’t really help your case. At all.

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              4 months ago

              So you dislike stereotypes only when they’re used about you. Funny how racism works.

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                4 months ago

                So you dislike stereotypes only when they’re used about you.

                No, I’m pointing out hypocrisy.

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                  4 months ago

                  From someone who posted a “meme” disparaging all French people and then points out the usage of stereotypes. Yeah. Hypocrisy at its finest.

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                    4 months ago

                    “I’m going to learn French so I can refuse to speak it” is disparaging French people.

                    Okay.