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Nyx (me@sharkey.everypizza.im)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 01:12:01 JST Nyx

all this "France is bad stuff" just feels like racism

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  Jesse 🇫🇷 (jessew@mk.cpluspatch.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 01:11:59 JST Jesse 🇫🇷
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  @me@sharkey.everypizza.im it's US-constructed propaganda because we refused to help during the period where y'all invaded Iraq for no reason
  
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  Jesse 🇫🇷 (jessew@mk.cpluspatch.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 01:12:14 JST Jesse 🇫🇷
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  @me@sharkey.everypizza.im this is a well-known thing
  
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  Jesse 🇫🇷 (jessew@mk.cpluspatch.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 01:12:48 JST Jesse 🇫🇷
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  @me@sharkey.everypizza.im https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-French_sentiment_in_the_United_States#Iraq_war here
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    Anti-French sentiment in the United States
    
    Anti-French sentiment in the United States has consisted of unfavorable estimations, hatred, dislike, and fear of, and prejudice and discrimination towards, the government, culture, language or people of France by people in the United States of America, sometimes spurred on by media and government leaders. 18th century The Patriot victory in the American Revolutionary War, which resulted in the Thirteen Colonies declaring their independence from British rule as the United States, was heavily dependent on French assistance. After the conflict, late 18th-century American politics was contested between the pro-French Democratic-Republican Party and the pro-British Federalist Party, the latter of whom were frequently hostile to France. Leading Federalist politicians, including John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, denounced the French Revolution as excessively radical and violent. Historians Pierre Bourdieu and Stanley Hoffmann have argued that the root of anti-French sentiment in the U.S. dates back to 18th-century American perceptions of French sociopolitical systems as threats to republicanism in the...

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