To be fair, the riots and looting cannot erase that the public schools were under funded? But of course the disorderly elements are going to use the protests to do the shit they are doing now. The legitimate school concerns and the illegitimate looting, both can exist at the same time, but you cannot say the latter is because of the former.
On a more general basis, that’s how a society has to accept if you allow a people power, protest driven society. Not that it’s bad, it’s that just as there are bad government, there are bad people too and people power does not discriminate good or bad people using that as a platform. And maybe people in the west will not see it but running an efficient country requires not just the efforts of the government, but the people too. But I have a feeling that France has gone down too far this road to ever change how the society sees how it should be run. Just hope that the innocent citizens be kept safe.
People in denial pretending that this is a student protest rather than the chickens coming home to roost for years and years of mass immigration, alongside far left groups.
This IS a student protest, and has been since the start. They have valid reasons for voicing their dissatisfaction, and put them forward very well. There is also a general acceptance within the population that they are justified to do that.
The looting and violence on the other hand is something completely separate. It has more to do with decades of social segregation and the power in place ignoring (or even furthering) a general impoverishment among the most fragile part of the society. That eventually leads to violence.
(Is it an immigration issue as you claim? That’s what the likes of Marine Le Pen or Farage will want you to believe. Social segregation and impoverishment is a far better key to understand this situation imo.)
If we’re talking about Saturday’s demonstrations this was a much wider movement incorporating many ‘complaints’ and the rebirth of the gilets jaune (particularly Marseille).
Also there was the police strike to take into account and the interior ministry completely messing up their information and being completely unprepared.
Really? Waterstones been badly hit has it? I think not.
I didn’t say a specific race. I said essentially immigrants, indeed mostly African not Chinese for example. And why? Because they’re massive overrepresented in perpetrators in the looting. Just as they are every time Paris is ransacked after a football game.
Wouldn’t that make their parents /grandparents the immigrants rather than the looters?
I’d have thought if the above was the case then they were just looters.
Do you have a reliable link to confirm this? I won’t simply believe that on hear-say. Maybe there alre also people with an Asian background participating?
Beyond that, it’s logical that most of the looters are from rather disadvantaged social backgrounds. If there is an over-representation as you say (again something which needs to be adequately demonstrated), it tells probably a lot about how France treats its immigrants and their descendants.
