[Dales]

This may be evidence of racism, but not of knee-jerk racism: Only 43 percent of Frenchmen say the same of blacks, only 21 percent of Asians, and only 19 percent of Jews.

Are you kidding me? 43% of Frenchmen (which includes, I assume, all the minority groups listed) think there are too many blacks, and this is not evidence of massive knee-jerk racism by the French?

Could you imagine a poll taken in the US that said that 43% of all Americans think there are too many blacks? The press would have a conniption.

It looks to me like there are entirely too many dumbass Frenchmen in France.

[Dales]

But there is a big difference between concern over Muslims and concern over blacks and jews and asians. The latter is just plain bigotry. The former may be bigotry or it may simply be a reaction to the fact that too many Islamic terrorists exist in the world.

As Fred Barnes summed it up on Special Report, most Muslims are not terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslims.

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Could you imagine a poll taken in the US that said that 43% of all Americans think there are too many blacks? The press would have a conniption.

poll hasn't been taken-we would likely need pollsters w/cajones for thisun; answer'd be interesting.

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Could you imagine a poll taken in the US that said that 43% of all Americans think there are too many blacks? The press would have a conniption.

Not only that, I'd like to know what % of France is black. What's their tolerance threshold?