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It may not be a coincidence that a judicial inquiry was opened today into Philippe's management of the pandemic.Comment
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Two additional attacks today:
A presumed Islamist terrorist has killed three people in and around the Basilica of Notre Dame in the centre of Nice. Others suffered knife wounds. The attacker was shot by police and is in hospital. Macron is already on the scene.
Another person attacked the police in Avignon and was shot dead. Contrary to several reports, he does not appear to have been an Islamist, but has instead been linked by the authorities to white supremacist activity of the Generation Identity strain.
France has recalled its ambassador to Turkey after Erdogan said that Macron is "in need of mental treatment" for his recent statements about Islam. The geriatric and incendiary former PM of Malaysia has said on Twitter that Muslims have the right to kill millions of Frenchmen in retaliation for past atrocities.
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The minister of education has long had a bee in his bonnet about ecriture inclusive, and today he has proscribed it from use by teachers, civil servants and other government employees.
Ecriture inclusive is broadly about adding a point median to a word to show that it describes both men and women. Traditionally, the masculine form has also served as the neutral form, there being no gender-neutral it or they in French. So, for instance, if you're writing about people from Spain, you'd traditionally call them espagnols; the inclusive form would be espagnol.e.s. The points medians show that these people include Spanish women (singular: espagnole) as well as men (espagnol).
The minister's justifications for this urgent prohibition are absurd. He is concerned for pupils with learning difficulties, who might find it an extra burden to contend with points medians when learning to read. Governments have repeatedly rejected simplifying French spelling, which is almost as bizarre as in English; and secondary school pupils with learning difficulties continue to be dumped in 'special' classes alongside kids with behavioural issues, usually taught by newly qualified teachers with no extra training.
The minister concluded his communique with a flourish: "Our language is a precious treasure which it is our vocation to share with all our pupils, in its beauty and fluidity, without squabbling and without instrumentalisation." His position was backed, of course, by the head of the Academie Francaise, who declared that the campaign for ecriture inclusive was "counter-productive" in the fight against "sexist discriminations" which were properly domestic violence, the pay gap, and sexual harassment. She didn't expand.
There followed a pointless debate in the senate (which has no vote on the matter), during which a Macron lackey denounced ecriture inclusive as "a danger to our school and our language".
C'est un gouvernement de con.ne.s.Comment
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This crap must slay in focus groups
It has become a pox across "liberal democracies"Comment
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That's true, and the comments from readers of our local rag are uniformly supportive of the government, where they usually compete to find the most violent formulation to describe their contempt for it. Even so, i detect a tinge of Gaullism if not Bonapartism in its choice of the French language as the vehicle for defending tradition and national prestige. Of course, ecriture inclusive is a non-issue anyway, so the government has nothing at stake here. It will take a friendly headline wherever it can since France has not made a success of the vaccination programme: the rollout has been disorderly and cumbersome, many of those at the greatest risk of dying from covid have still not been able to reserve a slot, and others are deterred by waves of misinformation. My mother-in-law (in her mid-eighties) is one of the few from her circle who have had the jabs; her best friend refuses for fear of the "long-term effects". She's 87!
Last month's opinion poll put Le Pen at 46% in the second round of the presidentielle.Comment
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Macron and his government should definitely be even more racist and lurch further right, otherwise Le Pen is going to win. This culture war stuff against ecriture inclusive is just the sort of thing to take the wind out of Le Pen's sails, for sure.Comment
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Gifler par un cunt
It’s bad news when politicians are getting assaultedComment
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Today is the first round of the French regional elections, and while of minor importance in their own right, they're the only real indication of the state of the parties before next spring's presidential election. The interesting aspect is that lists that record 10% of the vote have the option of progression to the second round, so in some regions that could include Le Pen's RN, the centre-right Les Républicains, En Marche, Les Verts, and either/or the Socialists and France Insoumise. Polls indicate that Macron's party will barely scrape 10% in most areas, so will be reduced to horsetrading for places on the Gaullist lists in the run-offs, similarly the left will generally form an umbrella coalition, but even so, it seems the National Rally is favourite to take control of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, and could even contend in others, such as Grand Est, in the deindustrialised north and east. Also, keep an eye on the fractured Corsican nationalist parties, whose coalition has succumbed to infighting, and the Breton regionalist UDB, aiming to capitalise as part of the Green list there.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Électio...çaises_de_2021Comment
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With the first exit polls/results released, it thankfully seems that the RN has underperformed, even held to a dead-heat in Provence, where the Socialists will tip the balance, and the left has performed surprisingly well elsewhere:
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/election...a_4668769.htmlComment
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Unprecedented rate of abstentions, with turnout of about 32 percentComment
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So, I reanimated the older thread, which was much smaller. So I'll post the same thing here:
laďcité - it's French for "racism"
https://twitter.com/_MarwanMuhammad/status/1418700293697572864
Last edited by DCI Harry Batt; 24-07-2021, 18:41.Comment
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I have no idea of any context. Just wanted to lighten the mood.
https://twitter.com/ClementLanot/status/1421482441311768579?s=19
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The legacy of Jerry Lewis lives on . . .Comment
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And now the government wants to ban maxi dresses (abayas).
Is there any movement about men's traditional dress from places that are historically Muslim majority?
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Racist wankers.Comment
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Grotesque, imagine being education minister and this being your first priority. Also in effect they're basically banning long-sleeved black maxi dresses, which would have caught a few of the goths at my school.
Having said that it's peculiar that abayas are becoming more widespread in France. It's not a garment traditionally worn in the Maghreb and seems to have been imported from the Middle East, I can hardly remember any woman wearing it in France 20 years ago. I guess it's one of these situations where a minority that's oppressed is becoming more radical and visible in defianceComment
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From interviews I've read it has also become a sign of adolescent rebellion and way to épater les bourgeois in some schools, Attal has also banned the qami, which had been adopted by some male students.
Worth noting that kippahs/kippot were already banned, but not crosses (unless they are of "excessive dimensions").Comment
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This is just going great
https://twitter.com/kawtarnajib/status/1699869108819435858?s=12&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow]
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The dress needs to be slit or tighter. Who is setting these regulations for school uniforms for girls?Comment
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Wild, but not as wild as salmon being an "Islamic colur".
Enforcement is currently left up to individual school officials.
There was very little advance notice of the change.Comment
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reminded of Osborne during the Olympics
https://twitter.com/BilongoCarlos/status/1700236737350434913?s=20
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It's considerably closer to Dilma, when you factor in the sort of person who attends the first night of a rugby world cup. Not a lot of anti-austerity protesters in there.Comment
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...which is what? They're booing him because the ticket prices are too high?Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostComment
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