Posted on 10/02/2016 9:00:29 AM PDT by RightGeek
A country is heading for trouble when its most popular writers worry that their words will land them in jail. France is that way now. Two years ago, TV commentator and journalist Éric Zemmour published Le Suicide français, an erudite, embittered, and nostalgic essay about the unraveling, starting in the 1970s, of the political system set up under the leadership of World War II hero Charles de Gaulle. ... The book sold 500,000 copies. Since then, it seems, Zemmour has spent half his time collecting prizes and the other half defending himself in court.
In September, he was let off by a French tribunal for a 2014 remark he made on the radio station RTL. "The Normans, the Huns, the Arabs, the great invasions that followed the fall of Rome," Zemmour had said, "have their modern equivalents in the gangs of Chechens, Roma, Kosovars, Africans, and North Africans who mug, rob, and rape." The French court decided his words were not so extremist that Zemmour needed to be punished, but France's media authority, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel, issued a warning to RTL. Over the summer, Zemmour was fined by a Belgian court for making similar statements.
Such censorship, most often carried out in the name of racial harmony, is becoming a normal part of being an intellectual in France. ... It is perhaps not surprising that Zemmour's new book, a collection of columns released September 7 under the title Un quinquennat pour rien (roughly, A Wasted Presidency), should have turned into a street battle between the self-described French left, who control most of the country's old cultural institutions, and an increasing number of self-proclaimed rightists, who are coming to dominate the Internet.
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When you control language and words, you control truth.
That’s what “political correctness” is all about, and has been since Mao came up it.
Deplorables vs the Pitoyables
France has no freedom of speech, in fact it’s unfit for human habitation. Imagine the frustration of French patriots... the thugs in Calais are throwing boulders through people’s windshields, and nothing happens to them. Yet if someone criticizes those African thugs, then they face a tribunal. Even the truth is “racist” in France.
Read my tag line.
THe French should remember.
Superb!
When you control language and words, you control truth.
That’s what “political correctness” is all about, and has been since Mao came up it.
“...Lenin came up with it. Stalin perfected its application. Mao perfected it further...”
Thanks for the correction, Sam... :^)
All commies look alike to me. Like sh*t.
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
I was taught how to behave, and to think. Not what to think, but to think. And seek the truth, whatever that may turn out to be.
As were many us, my friend.
And the more the Left tries to silence us, the more resistance they’ll meet up with.
We’re Americans. We don’t and won’t play that sh*t for long.
Excellent read.
The French have always been on the cutting edge of fashion obsurdity, blind to emperor-has-no-clothes truth, be it in their art or political fads.
Their self denial of threat realities guarantees their demise.
All commies suck.
Indeed they do... They suck the life and vitality out of every society and everything they touch, and create nothing but chaos and strife.
Liberals were incapable of understanding contrast photos between East and West Germany during the Cold War and they are incapable of understanding satellite photos of North and South Korea today.
The Settled Science crowd is filled with a Great Stupidity that surpasseth all understanding.
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