I don’t even know where to begin with this one. It already says so much on its own... [Note: I’ve quoted from several articles here, but linked to each of the sources where applicable. Some things are just too funny not to repeat.]
FRANCE: AUTHORITIES MOVE OVER 'RACIST SOUP'
Officials in French cities have moved to prevent charity groups with extreme right-wing links from serving the homeless a diet of pork soup and ham sandwiches - food that Muslims and Jews cannot eat for religious reasons. In Strasbourg, pork soup was banned this month after officials deemed it could disrupt public order, while police in Paris, have closed soup kitchens 'for administrative reasons' in a bid to avert already simmering racial tension.
"Simmering" -- ha ha. I love reporters. So Freudian. Of course, it's also fun to think that the French police believe that saying, "no, you can't eat today because of what the Muslims & Jews believe," will help avert racial tension.
That's something I've noticed about states that use an egalitarian social model: They're kind'a stupid when it comes to dealing with their poor. Hey, wait a minute...
Although no ban exists in Paris, police have closed soup kitchens in the capital's Montparnasse and Gare de l'Est train stations...Volunteers were ordered to re-seal soup containers on the basis they did not have the necessary permits to distribute food.
The diligent researchers of the Bureaucrash Activist network have found that the state's permitting process adheres to the consistent French political theory, "if you didn't bring enough for the whole class, then you can't have any either."
A leading French anti-racism movement, the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples, has urged Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to ban pork soup give-aways throughout the country...."Schemes with racial subtexts must be denounced," Strasbourg's mayor Fabienne Keller said.
I didn’t realize you could make soup with a racial subtext. A prejudicial rue, perhaps. Or maybe if you replaced the chicken base with Crow. Hmm.
French President Jacques Chirac has said that he would move to persuade Parliment to ban pork throughout the country. "We must work to eliminate these meals of racial hatred from our menus, in order to build a society of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, just like it says on our money." Further plans include making concessions to vegans by banning all non-essential animal products; as well as requiring all restaurants to provide filtered straws to appease the Jainists.
Okay, yeah, I made that last block up. I'm sorry. It was a cheap shot - I knew you'd believe anything after reading about real French social policy.
"…let them eat cake"
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sh(A)ne
Minister of Truth
