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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
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"Frenchmen are smelly, cowardly, and venal" started out as a bipartisan joke. Now it has become some sort of conservative shibboleth --- a religious belief that is beyond questioning, lest we offend the sincerely held beliefs of its adherents.
I think the French=bad thing will be regarded in the distant future as an embarrassing cultural artifact, and will be taught in schools as an excellent illustration of confirmation bias. YKmMV.
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