The country which surrendered to the Nazis, bought us the Dreyfuss Affair, Papus, Frogs' Legs and the Vichy Government, is ordering Google to ban the word Jew from its instant searches.
According to AFP it is not quite as it seems. A French judge has asked a mediator to resolve a dispute between Google and anti-racism groups who object to the search engine suggesting users add "Jew" to name searches.
The problem is that Google's autocomplete feature which suggests what people might want to search based on algorithms of previous searches.
But in France, users of Google keep asking if politicians, actors or other celebrities are Jewish.
So if you tap Justin Bieber the autocomplete will suggest the word "Jew" in French, or girl, but strangely not "talentless".
SOS Racisme, the Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP) and the International League Against Racism and anti-Semitism (LICRA) argue that Google is unintentionally breaking the law.
The group's brief said that Google users "are confronted daily by the unsolicited and almost systematic association of the word 'Jew' with the names of the best-known people in the world of politics, the media or business".
It doesn't exactly help racial harmony if right-wing nut jobs hoping to prove that there is a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world and ban bacon butties can identify their targets.
Under French law, it is illegal to record someone's ethnicity in a database and Judge Martine Provost-Lopin on Wednesday accepted a request from all parties to appoint a mediator to find a solution, with a next hearing set for 27 June .
A Google France spokesperson told AFP that Google did not decide on these requests in a manual way - all requests shown by autocomplete have previously been searched for by users on Google.
That which is Real, oka The Living, always tries to Unite through Sharing, oka Its Best, or to be unconditioninally loving, whereas that which is Relative, oka The Living-but-Dead, always tries to Divide through Exclusivity, oka doing its best at stratifying in order to passage Fame, Fortune & Immortality - to justifying full-on conditionality - to enable Control to be Abandonment without those being controlled realising what is actually happening, the duty of every principle and concept being to replicate. And all because sympathy has yet to realised that it is merely justifying its limited/spot position on The Complete Picture as being enough reason/abandonment to "be-proactive"/control for the benefit of Balance/Others.
Compassion, oka Unconditionality, acts through realising the Widest Picture possible whereas Sympathy acts through not realising that it is merely an ant of a spot of the reality, assuming that is it beyond even Compassion. A joker no less. Even this difference between Compassion and Sympathy eludes almost all. If true, who would like to cast the first stone of the know-eet-all-really-know-nuffin'? Yes, those who worship-blindly/are-mesmerised 25/8 whereas in reality, Worship is never blind because It is absolutely lucid and aware of who It is facing. That of absoluteness of faith, Faith. Afterall, when one is blind, anything else relating to sight is but an illusion. So how come blind/partial humans not only have mere sight, they also have hindsight, insight and foresight too. A true miracle if there ever was one, after the The Chosen Few that is, the latter being a pet of The Bookie. Now, now, what a nice scratcher, eh? … Purrr…… and people thought Sarkrazy, bent as his nose, is finally gone. Not when one, out of 3 Hell Wormholes, is none other than Gay Parrrreeee …. The truly good of France have their work cut out. May they succeed and overwhelm the domesticated prostitutes, the open-as-wide-as-possibles, the sophisticated, and the priouetting airy-fairies and their rationalisations. Isn't it a miracle that whenever passport control is removed, only the "opportunists" flood-in, so to speak, and seldom those who are truly satisfied/unconditional. Like a real Jew, the one who is truly self-realised and not of belonging to some past tribe now demanding and expecting his just rewards for doing just about nothing real but everything unreal.