French are the original crusaders
A video making the rounds has a man standing in front of a grand building with French flags, wearing a shirt that says 'Stop Apologizing for Greatness.' He's pushing back on the stereotype that the French surrender easily, arguing they're actually the original crusaders. He claims the Crusades wouldn't have happened without them, and that the word 'Franks' came before 'crusaders' because most crusaders were French. His message to French people: stop apologizing, remember your heritage, and own that identity.
Transcript (en)
You know I'm tired of all the surrender monkey nonsense about the French. You cannot build this much beauty without absolutely dominating your opponents, extracting the resources that they were too weak to extract, and bringing them to your homeland, and making them into something absolutely beautiful. You know the Crusades wouldn't have started had it not been for the French. The French were actually synonymous with Crusader. The name Franks was used before Crusader was ever used, because most of the crusaders were French. So no more of this nonsense. The French are not weak. French, you shouldn't be weak. Stop listening to people that are telling you you are and remember who you are. You are fucking crusaders. You are the original crusaders.
