Jackass Of The Day: Michel Brule; Liberty 101

Nothing depresses (and frightens) me more than ignorant minds calling other people ignorant while in search of power.

That is the very example of what a dark age entails.

Brule translated into English means "burnt". And this is exactly what this douche is: Burnt.

"In a recent piece for Le Devoir — titled “For or against Anglo-American cultural imperialism?” — he bemoans the omnipresence of English culture and says the language of Paul McCartney is also the language of the genocide of aboriginal peoples and the Acadian deportations.

And he appears less than enamoured with Americans. He told Metro newspaper in 2009 that not all Americans are dumb, obese, imbecilic, uncultured ignoramuses — only about 80 per cent of them.
“If I say Americans are a bunch of big, obese, imbecilic, ignorant, uncultured dummies, it’s the truth,” he told the newspaper.

“Of course it’s sure bet that out of 303 million Americans, there are maybe 50 million who aren’t like that. But, collectively, they’re still a bunch of uncultured imbeciles.”

It’s unclear what sort of a constituency Brule’s message might gain him."

Nice. Just great. I know the number of quality people running for office is low but this is ridiculous. There's a problem somewhere along the line if the political profession attracts morons like this guy.

Yes, because Quebec is a model state filled with geniuses.

I love his arbitrary 80% model. Now, understand, it's the 80-20 rule he's likely using here. But that rule can't be applied selectively. It's applied to, for example, corporations. In this case, he can't apply it to America and remain logically consistent if he doesn't apply to Quebec.

Nah. All this is is the rants and screed of a know-nothing nationalist blowhard. The irony is, in the America he thinks is so dumb, he'd be one step above the guy who wanted to burn the Koran I think it was in Florida.

Wait. There's more?

“English is not a nice language,” he told Metro in 2009, while promoting his published essay on the scourge of English.

“Intolerance and all the most extremist, racist, segregationist movements — they’re the KKK, White Power, the expression ‘Speak White’, these are all English things. They come from the United States, Canada, England.”

It's also the culture that brought the concept of individual liberty to its height and is the single most important language in world history. Moreover, Brule is just pitifully angling for attention because "racism" has been a part of humanity (including the slave trade) way before the "Anglos" came to power. 

Cards on the table. The French spoken here is a "countryside" French. Immigrants from Belgium, Switzerland, France and North Africa listen in horror to our French. Perhaps he should, you know, focus on the quality of French being taught in Quebec schools. Our dropout rates, educational standards and high debt are a god damn national disgrace. We have our own health problems (including high smoking rates), as well a major societal issues where the family structure is secondary here and the levels of political corruption embedded in our apathetic mindset.

Keep up, though, the strawman fallacy Michel. Quebec is Alabama North.

As Red Foreman would say, "dumbass."

And yes, I insert a pop culture reference in there along with a big middle-finger.

As for "speak white" Quebec has its own little fascistic game going with the OLF so he can kiss my ass.

What I find fascinating is the pure, arrogance of how Quebec nationalists consistently over rate their own culture while belittling others.

In Quebec, apparently, this is the manner to which to enhance pride. Suppress anything English and American.

Intelligent people, of course, see through this naked cynical ignorance. Unfortunately, in Quebec too many people privately possibly agree with Brule to some extent.

Which means, in Quebec, the 80-20 rule is probably 50-50.

Anyway.

Enough of this crap about crappy people.

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One of things we joke about is whenever we see a word that's not French how the OLF and its pathetic apologists would react to it.

Sushi was the latest. I mean, after all, they irrationally attack words like 'souvlaki' and 'trattoria' under the excuse that French people can't understand them - which begs the question, how uneducated or dumb are they in the eyes of the state? I mean, like, people in dumb America know what a 'trattoria' is. Any remedial individual is capable of equating the word to an Italian restaurant.

Ah, apparently no such logical ability is existent in Quebec.

If I'm Quebecois, I'd be real pissed these days. But that's just me. 

Sooooo, we need a law to protect the people from such infestation!

How to translate sushi into French? We don't want some poor slack in Northern Quebec ordering some raw fish.

What a laughing joke.

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But it's not always a joke. Sometimes the laws are so inane they literally infringe on civil liberties and amount to nothing more than attack on freedom of expression.

Flunkies and junkies and their apologists live in splendid collective misery but to the rest of the productive population it's not funny.

Consider the story of the 17 year-old Xavier Menard who was told by the registry office for business he couldn't use the name he chose because it "sounded too English."

Oi. I can just imagine what Target went through - and boy I hope Quebec adds to their bottom line because they'll be investing in a little more than profits here.

Anyway.

The kid has spunk and is fighting back.

Aside from that, he's one of the few wise kids (as opposed to the idiots who want everything free) that wonders what are the unseen ramifications to the economy in Quebec's hostile behavior towards freedom. Remember, this is a place where women have no right to choose what family name they can use when married. The government - without CONSENT - demands and forces them (under specious feminist logic) to keep their name - ask you pay for $600 to have it "reviewed" and seen by a psychologist to make sure you're not crazy (no, I'm serious and they say we're a democracy) only to say no.

In my family, for example, my daughter takes my family name but my wife can't. Which bothers her and rightfully so. But hey, the government knows what's good for us. Amiright?

In any event.

Of course, he's absolutely right and this blog supports him.

Bonne chance mon ami. On a besoin des jeunes hommes comme toi sur notre (entrepreneurs) cote.

See his video here.