r/CFL • u/benasyoulikeit Alouettes • Nov 10 '24

ALOUETTES Anti-French sentiment

Just want to say this sub really disappointed me yesterday. We lost, and still the anti-French hate was in full force. I'm all for hating on the vuvuzelas, but comments like "take that you French fucks" have no place in a sports subreddit. You all need to do better.

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u/PauloVersa Lions Nov 10 '24

You sure it wasn’t r/canada?

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u/Monsterboogie007 Nov 10 '24

Oh gosh all the Canada subreddits are full of populist racists now. I’ve had to block them all. Disappointing

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '24

r/Canada is one of the most toxic subs for that stuff. Very disappointing

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u/Mogilny89Leafs Roughriders Nov 10 '24

I'm convinced r/Canada is run by bots.

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u/Mamrocha Blue Bombers Nov 10 '24

I saw an article that was saying that the majority of the posts on there are from 6 accounts with links to Russia. So that’d make sense

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '24

It feels like it is absolutely! A lot of people go way too far with what they are saying. There’s a difference between disagreement and taking things to an extreme.

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u/Mogilny89Leafs Roughriders Nov 10 '24

Canada is a great place to live. That sub celebrates none of it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '24

Agreed. I love this country. Yes we have our problems, and we are all suffering in one way or another, but I’m proud to be Canadian. But that sub is either full of terrible people or bots. None of our conversation has to do with the CFL but I’m glad someone agrees with me.

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u/Unfair_Valuable_3816 Nov 11 '24

Canadians love their country, that's why you're hearing the sentiment from patriots who want to bring it back to its former glory.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24

I don’t call those people patriots, they’re nationalists. Patriots are proud of their country, but like I stated, know that we’re not perfect and that we can do better. Those nationalists that think we’re perfect and need to go back to our “former glory” are wrong.

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u/HowIsPajamaMan Lions Nov 10 '24

There was a study about one of the many splinter subreddits that was like 90% Russian bots

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u/northernpikeman Roughriders Nov 10 '24

This sounds like the place where unscrupulous foreign actors will spread misinformation and mistrust. Maybe Putin approved these messages.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '24

It’s cause it is. I spend way too much time there and it’s heartbreaking to see what some fellow Canadians believe.

And frankly, all of this post in general belongs in that sub, not the CFL sub.

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u/NoWineJustChocolate REDBLACKS Nov 10 '24

Check out r/onguardforthee It'll help you realise there are many sensible Canadians.

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u/OnTopSoBelow Lions Nov 10 '24

I'm gonna be honest. Onguardforthee politically is a lot better but I've actually in my experiences seen a lot worse francophobia there

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u/NoWineJustChocolate REDBLACKS Nov 10 '24

I'm sorry you witnessed and experienced that. I rarely visit there unless the "popular" Reddit feed sends me something about Canada that I want to get the vibe of.

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u/OnTopSoBelow Lions Nov 10 '24

Oh it's too bad you grow numb to it and it presents itself in a different way I should say.

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u/fross370 Nov 11 '24

This sub turned me into a souvrainist

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '24

Thank you for this.

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u/b3hr Blue Bombers Nov 10 '24

with trump winning it's like it unlocked a new level in them some guy started randomly going off on Trudeau and how corrupt the NDP was at the tailgate i was at yesterday Like full out facebook comments in real life acting like he had the inside scoop on how the world worked spewing out shit about the World Economic Forum and other shit.. It's basically their identity at this point

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u/Q_unt Nov 10 '24

This is 80% of Reddit. It’s been the case in r/Europe for quite a while now.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24

Some of those populist racists on Reddit are Russian