Analysis of French Protests and Riots

They're really trying to tell us that these riots in France

are a bunch of French

students protesting their education system.

That is indeed what the protesters are trying to tell us,

yes.

Schools are falling apart, especially in Marseille, in more,

how do you say-

Disadvantaged, um, neighborhoods.

So, a lot of schools in those neighborhoods,

there can be leaks in the ceilings.

Uh, there's rats also in there. In general, the, um, condition in

which we,

uh, work is, uh, very poor.

But no, no, no, I'm sure you know much more about the

French protests than the

French protesters do. By the way, a small nitpick, this video you

used to demonstrate your point is actually not from the current

protests in France at all. You know, this is from when the football

team PSG won the Champions League for the second time,

uh, back in May. See, that's why you can clearly see a PSG scarf

and a

PSG scarf and a PSG uniform, and up there is another PSG

uniform. Actually, if you look closely, you can see the Eiffel Tower itself is

actually lit up in PSG colors. Here's what it looked like after sunset,

so you can see it more clearly. Anyway, wise sage of the

internet, why don't you go ahead and tell us what's actually going on?

Look at all these French kids. Look how peaceful and optimistic and

patriotic they are. They're so patriotic. They just love their country so much.

So clearly, this is not a school protest.

This is a direct result of what happens when you import the Third World into

Western nations.

Um, first of all, what does patriotism have to do with

anything?

Did somebody promise you this was supposed to be some sort of far

right, ultra-nationalist rally?

Secondly, uh, you're using a lot of videos

that have nothing to do

with this. This one's a music video.

Look, there's the cameraman. Here's what it looked like from his

perspective. What are you scared of gangster rap now?

You should probably take that up with the CIA.

But back to the point, if this is not really a protest but

is actually just a bunch

of violent Muslims randomly deciding to go out

and Muslim violently, which is how your president and many

people on the right are portraying it to manufacture support

for their

anti-immigration ideology, then why is it nurses and

healthcare workers are also striking and protesting?

Are they also part of the immigrant takeover?

What about the teachers and firefighters that are also striking

and protesting? Are they all just part of the big Muslim

takeover conspiracy? See, what's actually happening is a response to

the French government's budget cuts to an already

severely underfunded and crumbling public sector,

which affects things like emergency services, healthcare, and

education, particularly, as our friend here pointed out, in

disadvantaged neighborhoods. Now, I don't know if you're aware of this,

but disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to be populated by a

lot of ethnic minorities. And in European colonial

powers, most of those ethnic minorities tend to be

made

up of people from the former colonies.

So for you to look at protests in response to government

actions that disproportionately negatively affect

people from disadvantaged neighborhoods and be surprised to

see a lot of ethnic minorities attend those

protests,

I don't know what to tell you. Grass is green.

Your ignorance is not a superpower.

Now, are there bad actors who show up to

protests deliberately

to escalate violence in a way that ends up

de-legitimizing the protest itself in the public eye?

Yes, that's a very common thing at protests.

In fact, that's why governments have a documented

history of sending

their own agents into protests to escalate

violence in order to give their police force an excuse to

crack down on them more harshly. And if you listen to what a lot of the

protesters are saying, the current state of affairs was

a reaction to the initial overly harsh police

crackdown on these protests before the violence

escalated. Anyway, please continue.

When I see these people, I think French immediately.

Oh, oui, oui, bonjour, je ne sais quoi.

I'm from Paris.

Uh-huh. Here's a list of former European colonies,

not all of them

French. The DRC, for instance, was Belgian, but nonetheless,

where French is either the official, the co-official, or a

very widely spoken language. Algeria, Benin, Burkina

Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad,

Comoros, DRC, Djibouti, Dominica.

The list keeps going. In fact, the most populous French-speaking

country in the world is not France.

It's the Democratic Republic of Congo.

So for you to picture the sort of person you'd expect to say

things like, "Oui, oui, bonjour, je ne sais quoi," and assume

that that would probably be a white person, again, I don't know what

to tell you. Ignorance is not a superpower.