• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Not sure about a name for the protest, but the are a number of articles out there. There’s a entertaining NYT article about a restauranteur pouring $1,000 bottles of don Peringnon(sp?) down his toilet in protest. But it’s behind a postal so I won’t link that one. But here’s another related link:

    https://dailybruin.com/2018/03/15/throwback-thursday-locals-pour-wine-in-westwood-streets-protest-french-aversion-to-iraq-war

    That whole anti-French movement was insane. I remember my wife and I were going to visit England (where I am from, but I live in America) that summer. And the shuttle driver (who was taking us to the airport) and I got friendly chit-chatting. Very cordial and easy-breazy. But he stopped mid-sentence and asked if I was French (because French and English accents are so similar?!). When I told him I wasn’t, he said “that’s good, because if you were I’d pull over right now and leave you on the side of the freeway!” Kind of ironic too, that driver was a black dude, so I’ve would think he’d be a bit more mindful of how stupid discrimination is.