Quebec's Real Enemy: Quebec

I'd like to address something here. It's directed at intelligent, mild-mannered Quebecers; not nationalists. Nationalists of all stripes can go suck an elk's scrotum.

The issue, it must be repeated and can't be so enough, is not whether Quebec has the right or duty to protect its language.

What's not sinking in the head of people and what is completely unacceptable in a free, pluralist society is the use of PUNITIVE measures to protect one culture at the expense of another.

I don't know what sort of mind can think or deem it appropriate that it's appropriate to fine a person for what amounts to freedom of expression. You must speak this and write this 30% larger etc. It's insidious, infantile and without decorum or respect. Small minded behavior from a small population demands, well, small minded treatment.

Quebec is declaring a war on language, yes, but it's also a war on freedom of expression it must understand. A war on itself.

French-Quebec nationalists object to be called small-minded and xenophobic but that's what they are. Change the idiot mentality and perhaps big people will take them seriously.

I read often language intolerance takes place in Canada - and for shame. It boggles my mind how petty we can be. I object to it and reject it outright. I stand for equal rights for ALL.

However, Quebec has taken it a step further. A step no jurisdiction has taken.

Now. Other places can look to here and say, "well, tit for tat" or "well, we're not going that route." So far, the latter is fortunately prevailing.

Infuriating in all this is I have to watch Quebec legislate laws that effectively create two-tiers of classes of citizens and must keep quiet about it.

On that front a big "fuck you" to all Quebecois dimwits who think this.

I'm currently reading a book about Rome. In it, it discusses how the majstic artist Raphael and the Renaissance thinker Baldassare Castiglione rummaged through the ruins of Ancient Rome in search of classical ideas and art like a couple of scavengers.

They wrote a report (well, it's strongly assumed Castiglione was a part of the writing), about Rome's decline. In it, and among other things, they argued it wasn't the Goths or Vandals or other invading tribes that ruined Rome.

It was the Romans themselves in all their decadence that did it.

And so it is in Quebec. It's not English or 'les autres' the enemy. They're just the strawman to a larger problem. It's the Quebecers themselves who threaten Quebec as they see it. How else to describe their behavior?

It seems others have to pay for their shortcomings and weaknesses.