Why the French don’t even have a word for «conquer»
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
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Doubles over and wheezes in Metis
so very uninformed
Ask the Vietnamese which France colonized and ended up fighting a war with the north Vietnamese then pulled USA into that same war! It was called The Vietnam war!
Stupid people have no shame.
I guess it's because they don't know they're stupid.
What the…what?
Hahahahahahahah
Algiers and Ivory Coast on lines 1 and 2 respectfully
Oh, wait, the other lines are ringing as well, hold on…
15 States used to be part of France for fucks sake. Guess they don’t teach about the Louisiana Purchase in all them Red States.
What more must Napoleon have done
As a history teacher I'm sad.
Look. I get that people don't know everything. But.
Ken Salkover has never heard of Vietnam and Algeria, or part of the Levant, apparently, And never mind Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Benin, and Niger.
Wrong take on history + wrong use of a semicolon. Pour la honte!
"The French don't have a record of colonizing"? lol. Algeria, Senegal and Vietnam can be heard guffawing in the distance.
conquérante
Ken Salkover wins the prize for the most brainless post of the decade
Wow
I thought the photo in Ken’s profile was Devin Nunes so I googled this guy’s name and nope, it’s him. Cursed to look like Nunes and be uneducated…
Wait until Ken finds out about the use of Arabic numbers in American schools! Invasion!
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Oh. Dear. If our criteria for teaching languages is only those not associated with conquest and colonization we won't even be teaching ours.
umm, Algeria?
I believe this is why the first Norman king of England was called William the Bastard.
Hysterical. Another dope who is so dumb he does not realize how dumb he is. Somebody should teach him about the generations of colonized Africans who learned about “nos ancêtres les Gaulois” at school.
Anglo-Saxons, 1067: Hwæt is happening
Normans: Nous avons un mot pour cą
Some guy named William just started spinning in his grave.
this guy right here gets it
Interestingly, Ken says he's got a degree in history:
I have such a love/hate relationship with items that make me want to track the poster down and yell at them in an elevator.
Hysterical. About a dozen countries sprang to mind. I have no idea why the Vietnamese spoke French for so long…
Imagine being so arrogant yet so ignorant.
It was just «facilitation»
[Cameroun has entered the chat] [Côte D’Ivoire has entered the chat] [Senegal has entered the chat] [Guinea has entered the chat] [Mali has entered the chat] [Burkina Faso has entered the chat] [Chad has entered the chat] [Gabon has entered the chat] [Vietnam has entered the chat]
Arabic is a useful traveler language, and a challenging one imo. This is standard freak out mode material for this crew.
Meanwhile in Morocco.
It was called French Indochina because that was the style of kissing that was most popular there
damn crazy how far napoleon has fallen in the mind of the average chud
The Quebecois were just like that when we found them, we swear!
Nice use of the French quote marks there.
That comment should instantly ban them from commenting on a school district policy forever.
How are you just not just stroking out when stuff like this hits the timeline?
not like actual African countries in the last 2 weeks have just removed "French" as their national language and gone back to recognizing native languages or anything...
Buncha cheese-eating surrender monkeys
