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From: salomon@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Salomon)
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: Nuremberg Laws (Was: Re: STOP Signs)
Message-ID: <1989Sep24.234330.5492@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 24 Sep 89 23:43:30 GMT
References: <1989Sep6.222038.2707@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1178@mannix.iros1.UUCP> <7818@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: salomon@ccu.UManitoba.CA (Dan Salomon)
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In article <1178@mannix.iros1.UUCP> leonard@iros1.UUCP (Nicolas Leonard) writes:
>In article <1989Sep6.222038.2707@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> gbs@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Gideon Sheps) writes:
>>and was therefor subject to alteraton long before
>>they had the nerve to re-enact the Nurenburg laws.
>
>Si c'est une plaisanterie, elle n'est pas tres drole. 
>
>Si c'est dit serieusement, je crois qu'il y a des excuses qui sont 
>dues. Ou aux Quebecois ou alors aux survivants, juifs et autres, de ces
>lois.

In Quebec, shop owners get their windows smashed for posting signs in
English.  Doesn't that sound a bit like Krystalnacht?  I have been
punched out for speaking English in Montreal, and my 65-year-old aunt
has been spit on for speaking English.  Perhaps an apology for the
remark is due to the Jews and other concentration camp survivors for
belittling their suffering at the hands of the NAZIs, but the attitude
of the Quebecois is still racism, even if they aren't dragging the
English out of their homes and shooting them.

>Je crois egalement que si cette attitude est courante dans les 
>universites du Canada Anglais, si on peut faire ce genre d'affirmation 
>en toute quietude sans eprouver le moindre besoin de se justifier, sans 
>y provoquer la moindre protestation et meme dans l'approbation generale, 
>il y a quelque chose de vraiment pourri dans ce pays.

There is indeed something rotten in Canada, and it is that French
Quebecers are protesting in the streets to prevent English Quebecers
from using their language, even indoors.

The sad thing is that the square-headed Quebec language bigots don't
realize that even if all the English leave Quebec, and even if Quebec
separates from Canada, French Quebecers will still have to fight to
keep their language alive.  The Danish, the Dutch, and the Finn's are
all fighting to keep their languages from being replaced by English and
they have NO borders with English speaking countries, they are NOT
surrounded by 250 million English speaking North Americans, and their
largest trading partners are NOT English speaking countries.

I make no apologies for posting this in English.