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CommentWednesday, August 15, 2007

Google Grabs 90% Of The French

4 Comments

By J. Buchler (WPN reader) - Tue, 08/21/2007 - 13:43

I feel sorry for you,

I feel sorry for you, Jason.

Jerome, Paris, Fr.

By Farhad (WPN reader) - Thu, 08/16/2007 - 12:08

Racism Rears Its Ugly Head

What is this post all about? Are you trying to make a point about Google or just cram as many racist slurs as you possibly can into one webpage?

I'm not French and am not a fan of the people either, but doesn't mean i'd rant, rave and use derogatory slang on a professional forum / news site!

By Jason Lee Miller (WPN reader) - Thu, 08/16/2007 - 13:15

not racism

Racism is a belief that one race is superior than the other and that the other should be supressed. I've made no advocacy of the sort.

If you want to know, there is French in my ancestry, but that is unimportant as French is not a race, but a culture or geography.

The article was about Google dominating in France, and was also a tongue-in-cheek reexamination of past derision of actually just a few French viewpoints.

It was a mea culpa with jokes, and perhaps the subtlety in my apologies were lost...of course, I did make my apologies in French, so you may have missed them.

I have nothing against the French personally as I haven't met many of them, and I was just having some fun at their expense. But it's not racist, not even culturalist, really. More of a roast than a rant and some need to lighten up.

Google taking 90 percent of any market is an eye-opener, and I used that eye-opener to back track (a little) on previous misgivings.

Sorry you missed the nuances there.

By Farhad (WPN reader) - Fri, 08/17/2007 - 05:16

Call It What You Want... It Wasn't Right

Call it what you want, it was a definite rant against a group of people, with less reportage and more unneccessary unprofessional attitude.

Far as I know, Web Pro News is not a political / cultural satire blog, so I would have thought it best to steer clear of controversy.

Slandering Bush, Americans and the Iraq war could soon become part of this laugh-along post, and I'm sure not many of you would find it very funny then.