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February 14, 2004

Oh, one last thing

Can we please stop referring to comments that offend Francophones, whether from septuagenarian hockey analysts or visiting American hand-puppets, as "racist"? Whatever else they may be, Francophones are not a race. It was nonsense to compare the situation of French-speaking Quebecers with that of black Americans 30 years ago, when Pierre Vallières did it ("White Niggers of America"). It is simply grotesque to do so today.
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