French Bashing Is Here To Stay
Editorials, Freedom Fries - Tweet this! July 15th, 2011
Whether it’s Women’s Soccer, DSK, Tennis, Bastille Day or a sponsored hash-tag – the web remains rife with anti-French prejudice and sentiment.
- Brian Moylan of Gawker.com thinks he can do better than Cracked.com with his weak list of “10 things we should send back to France”. We’re guessing Ryan Tate(1) was too busy.
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@LukeRussert (2) tweeted: Also in the midst of depressing #debt talks, go #USA women’s soccer! I don’t like losing to #France in anything. #FreedomFries
- Still over at twitter, a sponsored hash-tag (#wheninfrance) unleashed a flood of French Bashing
- Women’s Soccer provided plenty of fodder for the press and twitter
- After gargantuan win, U.S. can’t expect a French surrender
- Twitter was rife with surrender jokes over Women’s Soccer
- Some took offense at our replies: (1) (2) (3) (4)
- In other news: Les Bêtes Fromages by Llewellyn Hinkes – “After all, this is the selfsame empire that slaughtered its way through most of Europe under Napoleon and used its trans-national power to colonize Haiti, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Chad, Algiers, Tahiti, Polynesia, Togo, Madagascar, Mauritania, Benin, Niger, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Mali, Congo, Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, French Guiana, Morocco, Quebec, Eastern Canada, the American Midwest, and Louisiana.“
Meanwhile, part the French Consular Network (Miami – San Francisco – Nouvelle Orléans) is promoting the work of a group called “The French Will Never Forget“.
(1) Ryan Tate @ Gawker : “But [Angelina Jolie's] lazy, arrogant French doctors will make her wait in agony for three more days so they can celebrate cutting off rich people’s heads like communists and probably also so they can fornicate with their unbathed mistresses, get drunk and fantasize about terrorism.”
(2) Luke Russert is a television and radio personality who has followed in the footsteps of his father, the late Tim Russert)
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July 20th, 2011 at 2:54 am
La situation au Canada est très différent du French-Bashing auquel nous sommes confrontés dans le cadre de Miquelon.org. Dans ce cas c’est un rejet de l’activisme linguistique judiciaire d’un individu qui a financièrement profité de la situation. Je connais ce genre de personne pour les avoir fréquentés dans la communauté Francophone canadienne. Certains sont animés par une volonté inébranlable et sont persuadés que le pays qui se dit officiellement bilingue devrait l’être à tous les niveaux. Il y a en face de ceux-ci des francophobes aux paroles violentes qui représentent le dernier soubresaut des mouvances orangistes, protestantes et anti-Françaises des siècles passés.
July 21st, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Is this bashing, or is it commentary? You decide:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/vp/43838779#43838779
July 22nd, 2011 at 10:58 am
Well it’s historical fact weaved into a story and the points about the French police, the historical denial of France’s role (Pompidou et son ‘voile’), Vichy’s popularity vs. De Gaulle’s role before the last two years of the war are all accurate. However the last point about wanting to save the city of Paris from destruction in exchange for deporting Jews is utter bullshit. The two historical facts are not linked in the least. It’s not French Bashing with we deal with historical facts. It’s French Bashing when the facts are subsequently presented as uniquely French.
September 6th, 2011 at 10:02 pm
Hello my little French friends! I think you are getting a bit to wound up about the “10 things we should send back to France” article. It’s fairly harmless stuff really and is written in a fairly tongue-in-cheek style.
Poking fun at mopeds, bayonets, etc. is hardly virulent anti-French propaganda. I think this type of humour is very anglo-saxon and not really understood by the French.
At least there were no comments about the French military!
October 20th, 2011 at 2:46 am
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