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by mgas 1513 days ago
I was arguing that, in Europe, and France specifically, it's a way to see whether or not a potential candidate is "French" enough. It's expounded as a psychological tool (orthographists and graphologists are paid to psychoanalyze you based on written documents that you MUST submit), but in the end, it leads to a gray area of racism and classism.