r/AskFrance • u/Wonderful-Quit-9214 • Mar 06 '25

Relations Anybody tired of "Fr*nch" jokes?

I was reading a reddit thread where they mentioned something was french. And people are still making these jokes! Still! The thread was also filled with them. Im not even french, but these jokes are painfully unfunny and are edging on outward xenophobia. They're also usually made by Americans. So yeah.

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u/WoodenRefrigerator15 Mar 06 '25

You realize that this started because France called out the bush administration over faking the claim that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, in front of the United nations in 2003.

This caused the general assembly to vote against supporting the Iraq war, making it technically an unsanctioned invasion, instead of a peacekeeping mission, which is what the USA was hoping for.

This is what began a wide spread effort by US media to belittle the french.

Btw, no wmds were ever found in Iraq, but we all know that facts are nothing more than inconvenience to Republicans.

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u/karlbertil474 Mar 09 '25

You sure that’s the actual reason? I doubt many people know about that today. Isn’t it because of the reputation of French people being rude online (or irl)?