French Bashers hit Twitter
Editorials - Tweet this! April 29th, 2009Just a quick post about French Bashing and twitter. Conservatives and bashers in general have discovered twitter and will us it to spew anti-French venom in under 140 characters:
To find and respond to French Bashers on twitter, check out these searches :
Examples
- “nØbama apologizes to France for America leaving so many crosses on French hill sides during WWII. Americans have been arrogant, we are arrogant” - @TPO_Hisself.
- “French toast? Threaten it with your knife and it will surrender.” @davidpowellbham
- “Q. Why dont they have fireworks at Euro Disney? A. Because every time they shoot them off, the French try to surrender.“ @JessicaJayyy
- “rude, ignorant, racist, jealous, envious, inert, thick, stupid, paranoid ! but too dumb to be arrogant thats the french” @facunditas
- @timchi – “You can try and run over a french bulldog but it would surrender first”
- @asianlunatic – “Mantastic: When ur in France for holiday, the French will surrender to u, just to be on the safe side.”
- @JohnHancock61 – “Great movie line from Flushed Away: Lead French frog: To action! French frog commandos: We Surrender!”
- @Simon4365 – “ahhhh the weekend or as the French say “we surrender”!!!”
- @Hondo11 – “I’ll say it. Pietrus is not only French (known to surrender) he looks strikingly erily to a Primate. FACT”
- @macslash – “It’s nice to hear Serlet attack Windows with a French accent. Would have expected him to just surrender.”
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May 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Starting to feel like a twitter-sniper. Every day I reply to all those who mock the French defeat of 1940.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:30 pm
On average, there are between 1 and 4 tweets a day that mock the 1940 defeat of France. Most are from the USA. Thanks trickle-down hatred.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:54 am
One to four really isn’t all that bad. I would imagine that the UK and Germany get that many, per day, bashing them for WWII. We’re never going to totally eliminate ignorance but your efforts should minimize them. Good for you.
May 25th, 2009 at 7:18 am
Yes, we were badly prepared, expecting a war like the previous one. And badly led – the shortcomings of the French and British high commands and their strategic thinking have been well documented.
The Germans unleashed a new kind of warfare: Blitzkrieg. Neither we nor our British allies knew how to face it.
Any analysis, even a superficial one, of the situation in June 1940 shows that we had lost. Further fightng would have been futile. Our British allies knew this too, and went home (wisely) to continue the struggle.
They had an advantage over us: the Channel, which made a massive land assault against them impossible. They had to face an air war, and they did so magnificently.
But without the Channel, if Britain had face a land invasion, it is highly probable that it, too, would have fallen.
It took nearly five years for the British, then the Soviets (June 41), then the Americans (December 41), not to mention the Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders etc, to defeat nazi Germany.
Is it surprising if France fell so quickly?
To continue with the cheap, despicable “surrender” jokes is an insult to all those who fought and died in that war.
A war in which many Americans also gave their lives. And for this, France will forever be grateful.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:56 am
I do think you need to rethink your strategy when responding to “tweets” about the French. You need to get some context of each person who makes a comment. Reason? Well, sometimes people don’t bash but are actually just having fun – and those who know them will know what they are saying. The same way people might say the “fat Americans” or whatever. Not everything said about France and surrender is meant to insult the French. Get the context and get the person behind the comment. Or else you will be killing fires in a desert instead of killing the proper fires hurting you. Not everyone making a joke or a comment is a Fox supporting right-wing lunatic. Do some research and get the context or else you might make enemies of people who could actually be on your side.
June 1st, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Angry African,
anyone who says “French” and “surrender” in the same phrase is certainly NOT on my side. He may be more or less inocuous, but he certainly isn’t.
If you’re African (as I suppose by your name), what do you think of the old racist Disney cartoons? People watched them just “for laughs”, and people told jokes about black people, fried chicken and watermelon “just for laughs”. But would you take that kind of shit? I don’t think so.
The US are nice and sanitized for African-Americans, Jews, Italian-Americans, &c. Why can’t WE get a break as well?
June 6th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Mmm… Interesting. The old “you are either on my side or against me”? Not everybody wants to be on a side on this one. Do I tell jokes that offend people? Abso-bloody-lutely. But I am always willing to do it in front of the person who are at the receiving end of my jokes. Maybe it is a South African thing. We stereotype every type of South African and laugh about it. Why? Because we know it isn’t true and this way we actually break down the tension by joking about ourselves. So… When I tell a joke about “French” and “surrender” it is meant as the opposite. Those who know me and my background will know I am playing it back at them or laughing at the stereotype. However… If I see this on Fox then I am offended because they mean it instead of joking about it.
Lastly, Americans don’t sanitize everything. Maybe African American jokes but even then not by too much. They joke about the stereotypes to play it back at people. It’s a fine line though.
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