Hundreds demonstrate for protecting French
Several hundred people demonstrated Saturday for protecting French; despite a claim made in a comment below, most of the people in Radio-Canada’s photo are wearing masks.
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j2 22:59 on 2020-11-28 Permalink
I wonder more if these are the result of the radicalization techniques which led to Trumpism more than about the need to protect the French language. I’ll lean on some other stats posted in this blog to point out that mathematically it’s hard to show a loss.
(At this point it’s early in the infection, ah to have only hundreds infected.)
David72 03:48 on 2020-11-29 Permalink
The recent black rights matter stuff in the US has revived a Marxian analysis of power and race that has given new life to the french language militant portion of the separatist movement, for which this analysis isn’t new.
Wilton Guerrero 09:55 on 2020-11-29 Permalink
Settle down.
Marx was a materialist economist not a race theorist, black rights are not “stuff”, you are the one regularly stretching to invoke fashionable American terminology where it does not really fit.
Jack 10:25 on 2020-11-29 Permalink
“Marxian analysis” please, we are talking about a group of people who control every lever of political, economic power in Quebec, claiming that it’s not enough. These are all tropes used to create cohesion amongst the majority community, they are under attack…from Dawson.
Uatu 14:27 on 2020-11-29 Permalink
Yeah and even Dawson is run by a francophone
David72 19:17 on 2020-11-29 Permalink
People scoffing at the valence of the current Marxian analytical moment in the culture should literally pick up any history textbook currently being taught in our schools. Even back when I was in school, our history was heavily inflected with a decolonization paradigm, a functional and methodological primogenitor of the current, American-influenced round of ‘save french” activism. I know that most readers of this blog moved here from Canada or attended an English school way back, but this illiberal approach is hardly new. Back in the day it was more Franz Fanon than American, obviously, but from the whole speaking English as an act of aggression against the linguistic minority – you know, old stains but just as telling. The big difference is that the Americans have given a renewed legitimacy to this sort of analysis, when it had sort of faded.
Kate 21:53 on 2020-11-29 Permalink
“moved here from Canada” indeed.
Chris 00:14 on 2020-11-30 Permalink
Several of the BLM founders have declared themselves as Marxists. And Critical Theory draws from Western Marxism. So the Marxist angle is not out of nowhere. But I think it’s exaggerated. The run of the mill BLM supporter doesn’t represent the founders or hardcore elements; they won’t even know what Marxism and CRT are.
dwgs 10:16 on 2020-11-30 Permalink
Thank you for once again showing us the errors of our ways David8675309, we shall endeavour to be more perspicacious in the future.
david247 03:46 on 2020-12-03 Permalink
^ No prob.