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New Orleans fleur de lis becomes latest symbol to be called racist
2015-07-14
[REDALERTPOLITICS]
Posted by:Fred

#11  Calling someone else racis is the last resort of a scoundrel.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2015-07-14 20:23  

#10   When the real goal is to beat someone else over the head with an invidious comparison as an exercise in political correctness, ANYTHING GOES.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2015-07-14 20:22  

#9  It's every racemonger's obsession:
This wee poke of microagression
Is Babylon's haggis;
The brown paper bag is
The belly of racist oppression!

It is! Have no shadow of doubt of it (for those who can't fight their way out of it).
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-07-14 15:41  

#8  The "SJW's" (just the latest acronym for communists/totalitarians) will be dismantling the Statue of Liberty before they're done, if we stand by and do nothing.
Posted by: PBMcL   2015-07-14 12:35  

#7  This country suffers from an epidemic much like the ebola virus but maybe more damaging--it's called political correctness. One of the symptoms is that it destroys our 1st Amendment rights and freedoms.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-07-14 11:23  

#6  Not French. But Russian, Hebrew, & English all have them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-07-14 05:59  

#5  Gromgoru: These forms are direct translations of French sayings. Are you a Frenc speaker?
Posted by: JFM   2015-07-14 05:54  

#4  During her youth Mylady (of the Tree Musketeers novel has one branded on her for thievery or prostitution (don't remember).

Anyway,New-Orlean's Fleur de Lys is the Fleur de Lys of the Kings of France. The fact the King's justice marked criminals and escaped slaves with the King's symbol is unrelated to New Orleans' Fleur.

I thought ambulance chasers were the lowest of the lowest. I was wrong. There is something lower; racial ambulance chasers.
Posted by: JFM   2015-07-14 05:53  

#3  Some form of these sayings exists in all languages I'm familiar with.
(1) Appetite comes during a feast.
(2) Give 'em a finger, they want the whole hand.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-07-14 03:50  

#2  "code noice" is a mis-transcription. Original article "code noir"
Original video here.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2015-07-14 00:37  

#1  Slave historian Dr. Ibrahima Seck told WWLTV of the symbols history of slavery connection to “code noice,” the “black code” for slaves in eighteenth century Louisiana, when a slave could be branded with the symbol if they tried to run away.

It was also branded on thieves, fraudsters and anyone else that society claimed needed to be marked as they couldn't interact with other people without that warning.

Sounds almost like a solution for these whiny prats....
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-07-14 00:31  

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