Pork soup illegal in France - part 2

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Heresson
thinking of it, the French should ban serving meat. Serving meat is an outrgeous provocation against vegetarians and need to be stopped NOW.

There are not 5 million buddhists in France, and no one yet has tried to serve meat to the poor claiming it's "traditional food for those respectful of our identity".

[KrazyHorse]

So because they try to use your ****ty laws to shut down other people's freedom of speech it's cool to shut down their freedom of speech?

How about I criticise both as examples of why France sucks?

kthxbye

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


There are not 5 million buddhists in France, and no one yet has tried to serve meat to the poor claiming it's "traditional food for those respectful of our identity".

So it's okay to **** with minority groups as long as they're small enough?

Way to suck.

[Fake Boris]

Anglo-Saxon liberalism is quick to dismiss French methods on the basis of them being unrealistic or ideological, but see how it always turn back to its root principles like a Kantian crybaby, without room for balancing or discussion?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
Anglo-Saxon liberalism is quick to dismiss French methods on the basis of them being unrealistic or ideological, but see how it always turn back to its root principles like a Kantian crybaby, without room for balancing or discussion?

Is anglo-saxon liberalism anything like the "anglo-saxon music" you were whining about a couple of months ago?

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
So because they try to use your ****ty laws to shut down other people's freedom of speech it's cool to shut down their freedom of speech?

How about I criticise both as examples of why France sucks?

kthxbye

Thanks for being the fifth in a row to miss the point, again.

A) The operation was shut down on a technicality. Do you understand the difference between an administrative technicality and an actual free speech limiting law?

B) Seeing A, it turns out that the whole thing is a simple case of a socialist mayor playing a trick on people who deliberately intended to be dicks and stir up **** in the first place. I just happen to be slightly satisfied by the fascists getting a royal pwnage.
Slow down and think, man: if they had to use a technicality to achieve their ends, it's because they couldn't have invoked an heavier, hate speech law.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


Thanks for being the fifth in a row to miss the point, again.

A) The operation was shut down on a technicality. Do you understand the difference between an administrative technicality and an actual free speech limiting law?

Not when the technicality is used in order to limit speech, actually.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


Is anglo-saxon liberalism anything like the "anglo-saxon music" you were whining about a couple of months ago?

Anglo-saxon liberalism is the school of political philosophy that has influenced the most, well, anglo-saxon countries, as opposed to continental republicanism.

As for "anglo-saxon music", I don't see the connection. Are you bringing back the cultural quota debate?

[KrazyHorse]

I'm bringing up the point that calling the US, UK, Australia, Canada and NZ "anglo-saxon" is about as ignorant as me calling France, Belgium and Haiti "Norman".

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


Not when the technicality is used in order to limit speech, actually.

This happens all the time, everywhere, and is certainly not restricted to France.

Your mistake is to take Delanoe's actions as an alleged symptom of laws that don't exist in France (and thus of its "suckiness"), rather than a petty, little struggle between two conflicting parties - where the lesser of two evils won.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I'm bringing up the point that calling the US, UK, Australia, Canada and NZ "anglo-saxon" is about as ignorant as me calling France, Belgium and Haiti "Norman".

You're of those people who think that Saudis can't be antisemitic because Arabs are actually a semitic people?

And then you go on and accuse philosophers of hairsplitting?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


This happens all the time, everywhere, and is certainly not restricted to France.

Your mistake is to take Delanoe's actions as an alleged symptom of laws that don't exist in France (and thus of its "suckiness"), rather than a petty, little struggle between two conflicting parties - where the lesser of two evils won.

Actually, it sure seems happens more in France than it does either in the UK, Canada or the US.

[C0ckney]

the lesser of two evils is preventing the homeless being fed, even if it is only some of homeless. that's some bull**** morality you've got there.

[C0ckney]

two x-posts \o/

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


You're of those people who think that Saudis can't be antisemitic because Arabs are actually a semitic people?

And then you go on and accuse philosphers of hairsplitting?

Accepting loose terminology already in use is far different than driving its use. You're the first person I've ever seen to use the term "anglo-saxon music", and only the second or third to use the term "anglo-saxon liberalism". Maybe in France it's far more accepted as a way to sneer at les anglais, but it's clumsy wording which there's no reason to let spread any further. In addition, you should note that it makes you sound ridiculous. Calling it "English music" or "English liberalism" sounds far better...