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by abolibibelot 4620 days ago
A little context here. The FDeSouche blog (a pun on "Français de souche" which could be translated as "stock French" or "purebred French", really meaning "White French") is an extreme-right blog whose commenters are pretty tame compared to what you could read on, say, Pam Geller's site. The commenters have internalized the French Hate Speech laws and mostly use innuendos.

The "mariage pour tous" (="marriage for all" i.e. same-sex marriage) was opposed by a semi grassroot movement called "la manif pour tous" ("the protest for all") made mostly of our religious right. The protests were huge, and some people have compared it to the Tea Party (minus the guns).

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> The protests were huge, and some people have compared it to the Tea Party (minus the guns).

And either better dressed or significantly less dressed (many, both inside and outside the country, wondered at the existence of such fabulous anti-LGBT protesters)

The lack of self-awareness was hilarious: http://americablog.com/2013/07/frances-gayest-homophobes-str...