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OH NO!!! Not Racism In France?

Mike

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PARIS (AP) -- The French government has opened a racism investigation after a far-right magazine compared the country's black justice minister to a monkey on its cover.

In a statement Wednesday, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he had brought Minute magazine to the attention of the Paris prosecutor, citing French law that forbids racist abuse.

The magazine described Justice Minister Christiane Taubira as "crafty as a monkey" and referred obliquely to an incident when she was greeted by racist taunts from a young girl at a recent protest against gay marriage in the western city of Angers. She was also compared to a monkey on the Facebook page of a candidate for the right-wing National Front party.

Helene Valette, a spokeswoman for the magazine, said the cover was satire and accused the government of trying to distract the French from the country's real problems.

"It's a front page with a play on words. There's nothing mean about it," Valette said.
 

Steve

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terms and language used in leftist Europe would "SHOCK" the average American...

a few of the milder examples.

if you want to go get chinese from the takeout,.. you go to the chinkies..

anyone of color is a darky..

Pakistanis can be called either darky or paki..

a fag is just a cigarette..



they think nothing of it.. it isn't racist to most ,.. just the word they use..
 
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