[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense . Which is the whole & compleat & total & entire point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]
NORWEGIAN: Faen også. ‡
FRENCH: Mort aux vaches… ‡
FRENCH: Mort aux flics… ‡‡
FRENCH: Baise les flics … ‡‡‡
FRENCH: Baise les cochons … ‡‡‡‡
‡) Lit., “Death to [the] cows…” — i.e., & e.g., but not ibid., “Death to pigs…”, “Death to cops...”
‡‡) “Death to cops.”
‡‡‡) “Baise les cochons” — i.e., & e.g., but not ibid., “Death to pigs”, “Death to cops.”
‡‡‡‡) “Fuck the pigs…” — i.e., & e.g., but not ibid., “Fuck the police…”
Note: After decades of harrassment & profiling, & even extrajudicial street execution, these sentiments are the prevalent sentiment amongst French youth, & esp. French youth of colour.
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