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[–] 21 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

Dates from when France refused to be complicit in invading Iraq in 2003. A big anti-french movement was pushed by American conservatives then, and it just became an internet thing afterwards.

However the French are not really liked outside due to French tourists being arrogant and always saying things (usually food) are better in France.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Making fun of the french is older than 2003

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    But it got a political and web powered revival due to the 2023 2003 Irak war refusal which likely has a stronger impact on internet culture today than the WW2 has.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    This is the real answer. I have a chud 3%er man-child for a father-in-law, and he legitimately hates the French, can't abide hearing the language, calls French fries "freedom fries", the whole thing. He doesn't even even know why though, it's 100% virtue-signaling conformity with US American chud culture. The same man won't buy meat labeled as "Halal". (Though he will buy/eat it if he doesn't notice the label.) Like I said, utter child.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Freedom fries? Wouldn't touch any of that muck. Good old Empire chips for me!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    Dumps pallet of Empire chips into Boston harbour

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    France refused to be complicit in invading Iraq in 2003

    France... Based?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Paris is basically an overpriced amusement park staffed by surly employees.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago*

    amusement park staffed by surly employees.

    This is a common remark by tourists, and funny enough, people who've looked into it have concluded that Parisians act that way towards tourists precisely because they don't define themselves as employees who are only here to serve tourists. They'll get to you when they get to you, they'll speak to you like normal people and not servants, they don't actually care about the quality of whatever product you're getting because they didn't make it and they're not involved in the resolution of your problem, and they'll send you off if you get pissy about it. They are not the staff of your amusement park.

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