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zumera t1_j68rp4h wrote

Ridiculous overreaction. Does the French embassy’s spokesperson understand what AP is talking about? Their embassy is already the Embassy of France. And the alternative to “the French” (noun) would be “French people.”

AP should have just left the tweet alone, frankly.

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felonius_thunk t1_j6bo4jc wrote

It honestly probably brought more attention to what they were trying to point out, as explained in the article. If you could edit tweets, they could have just changed "the poor" or "the disabled" to something like "the college educated" or other positive state rather than something with an inherently negative connotation. I thought the reaction was pretty funny though. "Suffering from Frenchness" is a great phrase.

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