From: galbrth@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Quebec-bashing
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:19:11 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Stephane Boucher writes:

 [...]
 Make this country Unilingual anglophones so that we won't get Funking
 French on our cereal Box. We will get back the jobs that where stolen from
 us by the Funcking Frogs.
  
 Let's not give 60 Millions to the province of Quebec. They don't deserve
 it. They must first sign a deal. We won't pay for them. After all, it's not
 their money. It's ours. Furthermore, we only get 800 Millions dispite the
 fact that we are less populous. What an outrage.
  
 Let's solve this once and for all. Let's send the army. Let's put those
 damn Frogs back where they belong.

Gerald P Heckman writes:

               Je ne me souviens pas d'avoir vu sur ce net les mots
 "funcking frog", "frog" et "damn frogs" utilises comme tu l'as fait.
 J'espere que tu ne crois pas ce que tu dis - en tant que Quebecois
 francophone je trouves ton choix de vocabulaire hostile et insultant.
 Pourquoi es-tu le seul sur le net a utiliser un tel vocabulaire ?
 Pourquoi es-tu le seul ici a avoir adopte une position aussi extreme ?

Sylvain Chamberland (?) writes:

  He was being cynical, Gerald. I don't understand why you don't
  understand that...
  Don't you see the point here?
  There is a lot of Quebec bashing in this newsgroup, you should see that.
  At least, that's the feeling of many French-Quebeckers including myself.

Gerald P Heckman writes:

 Dirais-tu qu'il exagere, qu'il adopte le stereotype d'un extremiste (redneck)
 pour parodier ce qu'il croit etre l'opinion publique dans les autres provinces
 Canadiennes ?

Sylvain Chamberland (?) writes:

 That's the whole point of his posting!!!
 He was stating what he thinks is the opinion of an "English Canadian"!
 He is also a Quebecker, "voyons"!!!
 He called HIMSELF as well as all FRENCH Quebeckers frogs.
 He WAS NOT attacking French Quebeckers!
 He was being cynical. "sarcastique" would be a better word.
 And I don't blame him at all because I feel pretty much the same way.
 I did not see much improvement of Canada's attitude toward Quebec.
 Most of the time, I am frustrated as much as he was when he wrote his
 posting.


Now.  I saw what Gerald was saying the first time he said it.  Stephane 
was illustrating the redneck Quebec-basher stereotype you say is common
to Canadians outside Quebec.  They don't understand you and so forth.

Yet Stephane's language was the first such post I have seen on can.politics
from a frequent poster.  It illustrates a stereotype which we haven't seen
exists!  I've seen some intelligent discussion, not not so intelligent
discussion, but no Quebec-bashing name-calling before Stephane indulged 
himself.  I'm beginning to wonder about this myth.  Hey, let's all use `Qc'
on our mail and then work on the economy before it collapses!  Our political
problems will be over!
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