Duh! Because she posts as Jeanne D’Arc, of course, as Jim has pointed out to me. sometimes I am an idiot.
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\nWorld War I: Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it’s like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn’t call her “Fraulein.” Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.<\/p>\n
World War II: Lost. Conquered French liberated by the United States and Britain just as they finish learning the Horst Wessel Song.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nIn short, it betrays not only a astonishing lack of historical knowledge, it’s also incredibly offensive<\/cite>. If you don’t agree with me, do a gedankenexperiment and imagine the response a similar list with examples of “Jewish greed” would get.\n<\/p>\n\nApart from the offensiveness of statements like “Going to war without the French is like . . . well . . . World War II” –Word War II did not start in 1941, you know– what irritates me as much is the smugness<\/cite> of the whole “essay”. It is drenched in a sence of superiority which is wholly unearned: when was the last time the US fought a serious war on its own territory or had a real, strong enemy at its borders? The US has not had to deal with anything like the amount of war and devastation France had to; I sincerily doubt it would’ve done better.\n<\/p>\n\nUPDATE: edited to make it clear Jim only posted this, not wrote it. He has e-mailed me (after I notified him) that the main reason he posted it was because he’s always the last to recieve such
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\nActually, the reason I posted it wasn’t because I hate the French or anything, though I’m no fan, but because — as I’ve said on my blog several times — I’m usually the last person in the world to receive
\ne-mails with those kinds of world-traveling “humor” pieces. I was trying, at least, to make fun of myself, not the French, though that seems to have escaped nearly everyone who read it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nFair enough. Obviously, it has somewhat backfired… Let me make clear that I don’t think Jim is a bigot at all; his post just irked me enough to rant about the attitude as displayed in that piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of my bêtes noirs is anti-French bigotry, which for some reason USAnians are most likely to indulge in (with UKians a close second). The litany is familiar: they’re whiny, arrogant, stinkyand cowardly; the sort of lazy stereotypes any good bigot has ready to hurl at their favourite target. In the current political climate, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-10111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pointless-contrarianism","tag-blogging-about-blogging-is-a-sin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10112,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10111\/revisions\/10112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}