Why can't the wingnuts give up their hatred of everything French.

[Swede]

The French where right about Iraq. Move on.

[Kenergy]

1. Next time you come across a freeper that hates the French,

Ask them if we should tear down the Statue of Liberty (it was a gift from France remember)
and see what they say.

[EST]

2. French people represent (to warped brain pukes)

class, breeding and sophistication, foreign concepts to some: makes 'em itch between the-----.

[AlCzervik]

3. because they're stupid.

[stepnw1f]

4. Because It's Easier to Hate Someone Else

harder to face one's self.

[lildreamer316]

5. I have one word for them:

Layfayette.

(Gee. wonder how we won that pesky little thing called the REVOLUTIONARY WAR.)

[Kierkegaard]

6. The Creepublicans don't think the French were right.

Their fearful leader has told them repeatedly, endlessly, that Saddam had ties to Al Qaeda, threatened us with weapons of mass destruction, anthrax, bird flu and maybe even secretly funded Ed McMahon and the Publisher's Clearing House. Of course the facts disprove all those things (except maybe the part about Ed), but hard-line psychos and other freeper-types won't bother to let the truth stand in the way of a good hatin'

[LiberalPartisan]

7. It's natural for the cretins to hate their betters n/t

[RB TexLa]

8. the Neo-Whigs hate anyone who speaks something other than English

Sadly I think the Neo-Whigs on the left feel the same way, quite a few "you're in America now, learn English" threads here on DU as well.

[Redstone]

9. Because extremely stupid people are also extremely stubborn.

Haven't you noticed that?

Redstone

[annabanana]

10. They think it's funny..

If you asked one to deconstruct their "hatred" .. it's just "funny" to hate the French. (I think there is some hard-nursed resentment in some corners about the beaches of Normandy, but mostly it's just ignorance and bigotry, their usual stuff)

[Warpy]

11. Weak, stupid and scared people will obligingly hate

anyone who they're given permission to hate.

Unanswered hate has a nasty habit of turning violent.

This is what scares me most about this country, wingnuts feeling righeous in their hatred going postal on groups of strangers because they "look" like liberals.

It could happen.

[jsamuel]

12. because they like to hate

[Mythsaje]

13. From what I understand,

the French these days aren't all that thrilled with Americans either.

[Cobalt Violet]

14. They always need someone to hate on.

Dems, Liberals, Clinton, and the French are some of thier favorites to hate.

[cboy4]

15. FRENCH FRIES FRENCH TOAST FRENCH BREAD

There is said it!!!

Saying those three words to a wingnut is the same as holding up a cross to a vampire.

Therefore I repeat them often :toast:

[Hekate]

16. Jingoistic knuckledraggers with no clue about history

That's the short answer.

What's truly irksome is the way the RW politicians play to that audience, continually feeding them the lie that we (the murkin people) are the only brave, honest, true, manly nation. Well, you know, either with us or against us. Our so-called leaders continually bring the level of discourse down, so there is no thought to it, just propaganda.

It's also discouraging how French-bashing gets picked up as un-funny "jokes" by otherwise intelligent people.

Feh.

Hekate

[Rocknrule]

17. They're pissed that France won't just bend over

and be Bush's political sex slave like Britain. They can't stand anyone who disobeys the Dark Lord.

[400Years]

18. France has been just as bad as the U.S. and the U.K. as far as

colonialism goes. They have a very bad track record and also participated in the latest gang rape of Haiti. The only problem the freepers have with France is that they are a competitor on the theft of resources of the global south.

[maxsolomon]

19. RW BS comic "Prickly City" took a shot at the French today

saying that our ports would be in danger if the French ran them.

have these people ever MET someone from another country, let alone France?

[savemefromdumbya]

20. thank the French for allowing America as a country

[Odin2005]

21. If it wasn't for the French we'd be singing "God Save the Queen."

[gollygee]

22. I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that said "Boycot France"

but I wasn't sure if it was a joke or serious.

I laughed. :shrug: