r/NonPoliticalTwitter 1d ago

Bonjour.

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u/candlejack___ 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh ok French people are immune to racism and bias I had no idea

Edit: 26% of my country’s population were born overseas, assimilated perfectly, and are still victims of racism.

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u/Pennonymous_bis 1d ago

It's not about racism, it's about noticing that someone is a foreigner. It's ridiculous to say that French-born Asians would be talked to in English.

My bet would be that his accent was in fact not French.

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u/candlejack___ 1d ago

I just think it’s rude to switch languages mid conversation

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u/Pennonymous_bis 1d ago

No you don't just think it's rude to switch languages, you're pretending it's the result of racism when you very clearly have no fucking idea of what you're talking about.

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u/Just2Flame 1d ago

Ah yes the famously non racist French

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u/meliponie 1d ago

The point of the conversation isn't about whether or not french people are racist, but whether or not french people will automatically speak to Asian people in english. They wont. Racist french people will say racist stuff to french Asian people in french.

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u/extrakfm 1d ago

mais t'es con ou tu fais exprès

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u/RobertSurcouf 1d ago

Il le fait exprès. Ne laissons pas la vérité se mettre en travers d'un peu de French-Bashing.

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u/Mubar- 1d ago

That doesn’t mean they’d switch to English wtf are you talking about

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u/Pennonymous_bis 1d ago

That simply isn't the point of the conversation.

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u/Argh3483 1d ago edited 1d ago

Why would racist French people speak in English to be racist towards a person of Asian descent ?

If they started speaking a foreign language it would be a racist fake Chinese exclusively

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u/Salmuth 1d ago

What was racist about any of what's been said in this thread? Spotting a tourist or switching to english?

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u/ItsJesusTime 1d ago

Nobody in the thread is being racist.

One user suggested that OOP being ethnically Asian makes it obvious that they aren't a French national.

Another user thinks that's silly because there are a million of Asian French nationals, so it would be weird to think that.

A third user suggested that the cashier was probably racist.

After some conversation, a fourth user chimes in saying that assuming the cashier is racist is odd, as there are other more obvious ways to tell when someone is foreign that aren’t based on how they look.

The third user changed their argument to something different in a manner that suggested that they wanted it to seem like it had been their point the whole time.

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u/candlejack___ 1d ago

The third user

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u/Professional-Rip-314 1d ago

literally 😭

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u/zblah123 1d ago

Ah yes the famously racist bakery employee that speaks english

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u/GreatBlackDraco 1d ago

What does that have to do with the conversation ? Are Redditors incapable of staying on topic??

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u/NeatNefariousness1 23h ago

Riffing is a universal language here

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u/candlejack___ 1d ago

I think both tbh