Unrepentant Baguette Merchant • Hacker News Board

Re: Unrepentant Baguette Merchant

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Post by bJGVygG7MQVF8c » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 3:34 AM UTC

as1mov wrote: post #9

chairmanwow1 wrote: post #3

I have absolutely no idea what I'm reading here.

But it's fucking hilarious

Forget it, Jake. It's Reddit-town.

Re: Unrepentant Baguette Merchant

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Post by jfengel » Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

dnautics wrote: post #17

ur-whale wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a section on the topic of racism towards the end. CTRL-F for "logomachia"

I think his is a point that (as a person of color in the us) I've been afraid to say out loud. Nobody ever calls me racist, but when someone eventually does, I know what my response will be: "yes, I am. And so are you".

In anti-racist circles you'd meet other PoCs who acknowledge the same.

Re: Unrepentant Baguette Merchant

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Post by yarnover » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 3:47 AM UTC

wjnc wrote: post #11

As most comments at this time profess not getting it... I read this as satire. Humorous derogatory remarks by and targeting the French and their intellectuals. As a European who has lived in France about a year I see good humour in this. The French (or should I say Parisien) are something else. You lose more in translation in Paris than in Shanghai or Beijing. Perhaps it only seems that way since the culture and lang…

There is too much winking at the reader not to take this as satire. “Strong Libel Laws(tm)”