The Economist has picked up the language story in Quebec.
Once they laugh at you...
Indeed.
If you want to get an insight into the mindset of a nationalist, go to the threads and read the guy named 'Drouin.' I'm glad a few people weighed in against him. I thought of it myself but it pretty much echoed what I thought so I decided to just blog about it.
Priceless stuff.
I can break it down and dismantle it but it would be wasting my time. I can't believe people in this day and age would showcase such ignorance in public like that.
Dude is throwing around specious stats, activities of the KKK in the 1920s (little mention of the internment of Italians and Japanese or treatment of Natives naturally), using terms like 'anglo occupants.' Not to mention the bizarre argument that there are Quebecers who live here who can't speak a lick of French. This is a notion even moderate Quebecers hold.
He even went as far as to assert that French-Canadians are multilingual as if to say they're more open and worldly than the ROC. They also reinvent economics with how they spin our debt by claiming we magically take back our equalization payments. Quebec is at best a place that fails to capitalize on its human resource potential. Period.
Another popular tactic used by trolls is to contend many places have language policies. This is true, but no jurisdiction or region or place goes as far as Quebec. None. Zero. It's too 'out there.'
It's insane.
It can all seem reasonable within the confines of Quebec, but once exposed (because the world is filled with intelligent people) it holds no water. It releases the under lying insecurity that drives public policy.
The concept of 'freedom of expression and speech' has a long way to go here.
It's all part and parcel to a parochial society.
It never occurs to them that the arguments they use, logically, has a counter-argument just as, if not more, valid. History doesn't begin and end with the Quebec nationalists version. That's the problem, they want to end the discussion there so as to defend their pitiful game.
They have little justification beyond the "we need to defend ourselves" tact. At some point, it crosses a line and it did.
As I've said in the past, a second Quiet Revolution is required at some point to jolt these dolts out of their minds.
But keep going around Marois trying to convince Americans to come here. The best we can do is tip them off as to what awaits them.
Hey. If my language threatens, then so does my pasta.
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