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"President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Monday that the Islamic burqa is not welcome in France".  Later after a few glasses of wine he was overheard to mutter "Tits or GTFO".



(note: I made that last sentence up)

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permettez-moi d'être désagréable...

[jesuisgringoire.livejournal.com]

heh, I now feel obligated to point out that our treatment of our dark-skinned southern immigrants isn't a hell of a lot better. there's at least one state where it's a felony to give a border-jumper food, and I'm not sure linguistic cultural imperialism (speak AMURCAN!) is any better than its religious counterpart...it's a devaluing of their native symbolic discourse either way. in the case of the US government, our agricultural and trade policy created the immigration issue in the first place, so suffice it to say my intention was not to imply the US government is any better in general, just on this one specific issue, in ideal cases.

Re: permettez-moi d'être désagréable...

[agaitis-byrjun.livejournal.com]

saying I prefer to live under the U.S. government rather than the French government =/= OMG AMERICA IS THE BEST COUNTRY EVER YOU GUYZ

[jesuisgringoire.livejournal.com]

haha, understood.