I would reply you’re out of touch because most of the conversations in my school hallways have always been at least 50% in english. And I live in Quebec. There are some areas where it’s better than others, like Quebec City, but as Montreal is only 49% French-speaking, I wouldn’t say there is nothing happening over there.
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Well, the thing is that the threat is still very much present today. The french language is declining in Quebec, the youth speak more and more english, the internet is basically in english, no matter how hard you try, french music and movies are either inexistant or nobody watches them, there’s routinely stories comming out of Quebecers trying to get a service from the federal, only to get shut down because nobody speak french on the other end of the line, it’s more and more difficult to get a job where it’s feasible to speak french all day, higher-ups in corporations live decades in the metropolis without speaking a word of french, university students are tought their fields in english, in a french class and McGill (an english university) get 90% of the grants in the province, and on and on and on. The battle is not about the conquest wars or the october crisis, it’s about today.
As I said, the CAQ is doing a particularly bad job at the moment. They have made very poor financial decisions over the past decade and now they have to claw the deficit, blaming the problems on everything else, you know, the usual political stuff. So now they cut funding for everything, promising that nothing will be affected and they create new laws to make it appear as if they’re doing something before the next election drives them in the ground.
I will conceed that there is a background of xenophobia in a lot of these movements, but it is not mainstream. And remember that the CAQ is not the OQLF and it is not the population. The CAQ’s poll rating are devastating right now. And when that story came out, pretty much everybody reacted saying “yet another stupid decision from the CAQ”.
Ah, yes. The Canadian Independence Penis Envy. They have been and will be second to the US, and that pisses them off. Why won’t they just listen, stop defending their economy, and just be the 51st state already? There are so many benefits, I can’t start to count.
Ah, yes. The English Language Penis Envy. They have been for a while and will be second to Chinese. Why won’t they just accept that it would be far more economically efficient to speak the same language as our main producer? They just have to put their pesky superiority feelings aside and accept that every children in the US and Canada should now learn Chinese as their first language.
Ah yes. The Ukrainian Independence Penis Envy. They have been and will be second to Russia, and that pisses them off. Why won’t they simply accept that they’re not even a real country, bow down and finally accept Putin’s rule?
Ah yes. The Taiwan Independence Penis Envy. The have been and will be second to China, and that pisses them off. Why won’t they simply accept that they’re not the real China and just come back inside the mainland? So many economic benefits.
Ah yes. The Indigenous Culture Penis Envy. They have been and will be second to European rule, and that pisses them off. Why won’t they understand that there place is in the residential schools? Why won’t they understand that to be properly civilized is for their benefit and that we know better than them?
Ah yes. The European Tech Sovereignty Penis Envy. The have been and will be second to American tech companies. Why won’t they understand that they’re too late, that it’ll be too costly and that it’s really just an unfair attack against American companies to declare that they have too much power over their infrastructure?
I could go on.
The defense of French language is not about saying that we are better than everyone else (although some disgusting people do think that). It is about fighting to stay alive in a world where any slippage means death. It’s about fighting the 80%-90% of english-first speakers in North America that put enormous amounts of funds and weight behind assimilation. When the might of the United States and the government of your own country is pushing for you to speak english, the only way to survive is by lashing out some times.
How would I do that? The curl command already works and the service is being handeld by the reverse proxy, which depends on the domain name to pass the requests correctly. Even if I succeeded, element-web is configured to send the file to the domain name, not the local address.
Although I agree that the CAQ is doing a terrible job at the moment and that the bureaucrats at the OQLF sometimes exagerate without considering themseleves if there exists an alternative, it is about culture and has always been. The politics in Quebec have always rotated arround the defense against english assimilation.
I am thinking of trying caddy, but I don’t think it’s the issue. As I said, a curl command works fine, and I also have a peertube instance that takes way bigger files just fine.