Xref: utzoo can.general:1756 can.politics:2770 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!ubc-cs!alberta!ccu!salomon 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) Distribution: can Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Lines: 40 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.