PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoFrenchposting (or refusing to do so)lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1707
arrow-up1689external-linkFrenchposting (or refusing to do so)lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squareAbzantheism@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down9·5 months agoWouldn’t expect you to understand, they don’t teach you about propaganda in American history lessons.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoIf 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.
minus-squareAbzantheism@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down8·5 months agoSo you dislike stereotypes only when they’re used about you. Funny how racism works.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·5 months ago So you dislike stereotypes only when they’re used about you. No, I’m pointing out hypocrisy.
minus-squareAbzantheism@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down6·5 months agoFrom someone who posted a “meme” disparaging all French people and then points out the usage of stereotypes. Yeah. Hypocrisy at its finest.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·5 months ago“I’m going to learn French so I can refuse to speak it” is disparaging French people. Okay.
minus-squareTenthrow@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·5 months agoFrance isn’t a race.
minus-squareAbzantheism@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·5 months agoSemantics. It’s the same feeling for you all.
Wouldn’t expect you to understand, they don’t teach you about propaganda in American history lessons.
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.
So you dislike stereotypes only when they’re used about you. Funny how racism works.
No, I’m pointing out hypocrisy.
From someone who posted a “meme” disparaging all French people and then points out the usage of stereotypes. Yeah. Hypocrisy at its finest.
“I’m going to learn French so I can refuse to speak it” is disparaging French people.
Okay.
France isn’t a race.
Semantics. It’s the same feeling for you all.