Comments on: The greatest accomplishments of the French... http://trilema.com/2013/the-greatest-accomplishments-of-the-french/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Thu, 14 May 2026 10:10:08 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Vexare http://trilema.com/2013/the-greatest-accomplishments-of-the-french/#comment-92876 Vexare Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:21:20 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=47348#comment-92876 Catalonian who doesn't want to be French. You don't see this shit everyday. Catalonian who doesn't want to be French. You don't see this shit everyday.

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2013/the-greatest-accomplishments-of-the-french/#comment-92870 Mircea Popescu Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:56:05 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=47348#comment-92870 Indeed. And <a href=https://trilema.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/326041377567805442 >to this day</a> the same blind driving force of socialist idiocy threatens the world with extinction through stupidity. Indeed. And to this day the same blind driving force of socialist idiocy threatens the world with extinction through stupidity.

]]> By: Jaume Corbera Pou http://trilema.com/2013/the-greatest-accomplishments-of-the-french/#comment-92869 Jaume Corbera Pou Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:52:41 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=47348#comment-92869 When at the mid-19th century, primary school is made compulsory all across the State, it is also made clear that only French will be taught, and the teachers will severely punish any pupil speaking in patois. The aim of the French educational system will consequently not be to dignify the pupils' natural humanity, developing their culture and teaching them to write their language, but rather to humiliate them and morally degrade them for the simple fact of being what tradition and their nature made them. The self-proclaimed country of the "Human rights" will then ignore one of man's most fundamental rights, the right to be himself and speak the language of his nation. And with that attitude France, the "grande France" that calls itself the champion of liberty, will pass the 20th century, indifferent to the timid protest movements of the various linguistic communities it submitted and the literary prestige they may have given birth to. [...] France, that under Franco's reign was seen here [in Catalonia] as the safe haven of freedom, has the miserable honour of being the State of Europe — and probably the world — that succeeded best in the diabolical task of destroying its own ethnic and linguistic patrimony and moreover, of destroying human family bonds: many parents and children, or grandparents and grandchildren, have different languages, and the latter feel ashamed of the first because they speak a despicable patois, and no element of the grandparents' culture has been transmitted to the younger generation, as if they were born out of a completely new world. This is the French State that has just entered the 21st century, a country where stone monuments and natural landscapes are preserved and respected, but where many centuries of popular creation expressed in different tongues are on the brink of extinction. The "gloire" and the "grandeur" built on a genocide. No liberty, no equality, no fraternity: just cultural extermination, this is the real motto of the French Republic. When at the mid-19th century, primary school is made compulsory all across the State, it is also made clear that only French will be taught, and the teachers will severely punish any pupil speaking in patois. The aim of the French educational system will consequently not be to dignify the pupils' natural humanity, developing their culture and teaching them to write their language, but rather to humiliate them and morally degrade them for the simple fact of being what tradition and their nature made them. The self-proclaimed country of the "Human rights" will then ignore one of man's most fundamental rights, the right to be himself and speak the language of his nation. And with that attitude France, the "grande France" that calls itself the champion of liberty, will pass the 20th century, indifferent to the timid protest movements of the various linguistic communities it submitted and the literary prestige they may have given birth to. [...] France, that under Franco's reign was seen here [in Catalonia] as the safe haven of freedom, has the miserable honour of being the State of Europe — and probably the world — that succeeded best in the diabolical task of destroying its own ethnic and linguistic patrimony and moreover, of destroying human family bonds: many parents and children, or grandparents and grandchildren, have different languages, and the latter feel ashamed of the first because they speak a despicable patois, and no element of the grandparents' culture has been transmitted to the younger generation, as if they were born out of a completely new world. This is the French State that has just entered the 21st century, a country where stone monuments and natural landscapes are preserved and respected, but where many centuries of popular creation expressed in different tongues are on the brink of extinction. The "gloire" and the "grandeur" built on a genocide. No liberty, no equality, no fraternity: just cultural extermination, this is the real motto of the French Republic.

]]> By: Vexare http://trilema.com/2013/the-greatest-accomplishments-of-the-french/#comment-92855 Vexare Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:01:50 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=47348#comment-92855 <blockquote>Most notably, the French have managed to create an untenable and nonsensical state in the middle of the Middle East, ie Israel.</blockquote> But Balfour is English.

Most notably, the French have managed to create an untenable and nonsensical state in the middle of the Middle East, ie Israel.

But Balfour is English.

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