tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post5042679432283665160..comments2024-03-27T07:47:11.168-07:00Comments on LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: The Language Of RacismEUGENE PLAWIUKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-90341173602202182732007-04-27T02:55:00.000-07:002007-04-27T02:55:00.000-07:00You do know, incidently, that only in this half-ba...You do know, incidently, that only in this half-baked Quebecois sub-par province does the word "Arret" appear on stop signs? (Well, and in national parks too, thanks to that rat bastard Trudeau).<BR/><BR/>If you go to France, from the streets of gay-when-the-raggies-aren't-watching Paris to the smallest <I>ville</I>, the stop signs all say.. "STOP"... on them.Feynman and Coulter's Love Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05129851946309441082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-79166069143731764402007-03-18T06:59:00.000-07:002007-03-18T06:59:00.000-07:00What the hell is with you folks defending racism? ...<I>What the hell is with you folks defending racism? Is it because he is Quebecois and you are feeling a bit guilty for being Anglais?</I><BR/><BR/>You're losing it, Eugene. Last time I try talking to a jerking knee.Dr.Dawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00416571487451925246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-60380009114698229892007-03-16T22:32:00.000-07:002007-03-16T22:32:00.000-07:00I think we have to look at it this way. If someone...I think we have to look at it this way. If someone was to go up to a Chinese person on the street and say, "How ya doin' slant-eyes?" do you think for a moment people would not see that as an example of racism? Of course they would, and I don't think Boisclair should be let off the hook, just because he is a PQ politician and thus two or three millimeters more progressive than his two rightist opponents. Nationalism always expels foul vapours and this is one of them.Larry Gambonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04965037776214596919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-90191730995634823582007-03-16T20:27:00.000-07:002007-03-16T20:27:00.000-07:00Dr. Dawg oh please epicanthic fold, is not what he...Dr. Dawg oh please epicanthic fold, is not what he said he said slant eyed. If he said gook, chink, jap, etc. would it be plainer. What the hell is with you folks defending racism? Is it because he is Quebecois and you are feeling a bit guilty for being Anglais? <BR/>The Pure Liane Quebecois are a racist ruling class in their country, just like most ruling classes especially those who identify by linguistic nationalism.EUGENE PLAWIUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-57559099603546229202007-03-16T16:05:00.000-07:002007-03-16T16:05:00.000-07:00I think matters are a mite more complex--some rumi...I think matters are a mite more complex--some ruminations at my place. <BR/><BR/>I don't think that the identification of a common physical characteristic is necessarily racist, but the debate is multifaceted on that one.<BR/><BR/>If I said, for example, that "the Han people have an epicanthic fold," would I be racist? There's more to this, at least in my view.Dr.Dawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00416571487451925246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-25258901621296584322007-03-16T13:13:00.000-07:002007-03-16T13:13:00.000-07:00Please gimme a break he used racist slang. If he w...Please gimme a break he used racist slang. If he wanted to use the correct term in French he would have said Chinois or asiatique or Japonais. He didn't he used a racist term, which belies the inherent racism amongst the Quebecois nationalists as I pointed out.EUGENE PLAWIUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-5372784593390911752007-03-16T12:59:00.000-07:002007-03-16T12:59:00.000-07:00Eugene, it was a convolted argument where I believ...Eugene, it was a convolted argument where I believe you made tenuous relationships to what Mr. boisclair said in french to the firing of a french speaking person in Alberta. <BR/>You are on solid ground when you say that the person fired from his job was discriminatory. Full-stop.<BR/>There are things that are said in french or english, for example, that really don't have a counterpart in the other language, or translate badly. I believe this is one example. <BR/>To use another linguistics example, the innuit have at least 20 names or more for snow, but in english or french, there is only one. Is that racist? No, that is linguistics. Trying to do straight across translation, often loses its meaning or sounds 'not right' so to speak, as language is communicating of thoughts and ideas, and not individual words.susansmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02573558646874765432noreply@blogger.com