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Being overly PC finaly overturned
Topic Started: Jan 3 2007, 09:02 PM (106 Views)
MaxPower
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And in a surprising country, France
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PARIS (Reuters) - A French court ruled Tuesday that an organization with far-right links can continue offering pork soup to the homeless, rejecting police complaints that the food distribution was racist.

Police banned the soup kitchen last month, arguing that the handouts discriminated against Jews and Muslims who do not eat pork on religious grounds.

The administrative court said the distribution was "clearly discriminatory," but could not be stopped because the organizers offered to feed anyone who asked for help.

The mayor of Paris condemned the ruling and urged the police to appeal the ruling.

"Faced by this initiative which stinks of xenophobia, I want once again to express city hall's desire to fight all forms of discrimination, racism and anti-Semitism," mayor Bertrand Delanoe said in a statement.

The food handouts are organized by a nationalist group called Solidarity of the French (SDF). It says its "pig soup," which uses pork fat for stock, is country fare much loved by French traditionalists.

"No-one has ever been able to prove that anyone has been refused soup or clothes on the grounds of their religion or race," SDF lawyer Frederic Pichon told France Info radio after Tuesday's court decision.

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SDF lawyer

I didn't know we had a lawyer, might be good that we do.
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Frozenkilt
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Online douche. GOLD! I need more Gold
MaxPower
Jan 3 2007, 10:02 PM
I didn't know we had a lawyer, might be good that we do.

When does he get out of jail?

- Sean
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Caber McJock
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I agree
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Solidarity of the French (SDF)


Yeah, well their lawyer might be hearing from us.

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"Faced by this initiative which stinks of xenophobia, I want once again to express city hall's desire to fight all forms of discrimination, racism and anti-Semitism," mayor Bertrand Delanoe said in a statement.




Does anyone else think that, as a species, we are fucked beyond all hope?

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MaxPower
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We were doomed the moment the 1st mud brick was layed in Jericho.



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Jesse Snadden
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Frankly, I think this pork eating taboo is a result of Trichinellosis, which ended up getting indoctrinated into religion.

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Caber McJock
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Could be. Pigs have always kind of been regarded as 'dirty' animals, the tichinosis thing probably had a lot to do with that.

I mean fuck, it's not like they're lining them up and forcing them to eat the stuff.
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