please stop bashing France

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:54:35 GMT, "IO" wrote:

I'm italian and in my opinion the "french bashing" is a stupid and racist
thing. There's no much reasons to hate USA but tv shows like Bill O'reilly's
one and newspapers like New York Post are part of these reasons. Please
don't follow them in their unjustified stupid hate campaign.


France is not a "race" so French bashing is not racist. France has
chosen (as is their right) to take positions that most people in the
US feel are stupid and counter-productive. Expressing disgust with the
policies of the French Government is simply an exercise of free
speech.

Al Minyard

"Alan Minyard" wrote in message
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France is not a "race" so French bashing is not racist.

Interestingly (maybe) British law doesn't see it the same way. (I'd be
interested to know the American legal position.) In UK law, there is no
distinction between discriminating against someone's nationality of origin
and their ethnic race. Therefore French-bashing in the UK could be
considered a criminal offence, but I think it would probably only likely
come into play as a reason for a greater offence, i.e. racially motivated
violent attack, or discrimination at work. (Though logically verbal abuse
against someone because they're a different colour is no different to if
they're a different nationality.)

Si

In article , "IO"
wrote:

I'm italian and in my opinion the "french bashing" is a stupid and
racist thing. There's no much reasons to hate USA but tv shows like Bill
O'reilly's one and newspapers like New York Post are part of these
reasons. Please don't follow them in their unjustified stupid hate
campaign.

We don't hate the French.
Hate implies fear and the French are..... well the French and
ipso facto irrelevant. We fear them not!
They leave themselves open to ridicule and we merely fill in the
spaces.

IBM

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In article , says...
I'm italian and in my opinion the "french bashing" is a stupid and racist
thing. There's no much reasons to hate USA but tv shows like Bill O'reilly's
one and newspapers like New York Post are part of these reasons. Please
don't follow them in their unjustified stupid hate campaign.

I didn't know that the French were a different race.

Can I sell you a nice surplus Italian army rifle ?


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