The French Riots are Not a Product of Social Exclusion By Richard Miller (London)
A comment on the riots in France by Vincent Trémolet de Villers, has appeared at the site below, which debunks the narrative that the mainstream media, and the Left are pushing, that the looting and riots are the result of social exclusion. On the contrary, the rioters have annual riots, and this year coordinated things with the protest over the shooting of the 17-year old, as this was easy to exploit. And, the suburbs where the rioters come from have had billions of Euros poured into them, much more attention that poor white French areas. De Villers sees this as a product of the woke promoting the idea that French culture, which has given them so much, is to be despised. Riots are what follows. See the video at the site below where rioters chant “Allahu Akbar” while, rioting:
Macron has moved to protect the rioters by a ban upon social media reporting of the events of French Revolution 2.0:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/07/france-and-the-muslim-riots
“Are looting and riots the result of social exclusion, as we are told? It is true that we hear this worn-out discourse about abandoned suburbs, with a cohort of commentators and politicians who, instead of truly condemning this chaos, speak of a form of legitimate violence. A violence that is fueled by a thirst for justice following the death of a 17-year-old delinquent, but more broadly by structural injustice against a portion of French youth.
This explanation is doubly false. False because the rioters exploit this tragedy to commit destruction and looting that usually take place on July 14 and December 31, or during football matches, when there is no tragedy. These are opportunistic rioters who, whenever they can, vandalize and assault police officers, firefighters, and journalists. Are they abandoned? It’s much more complicated than that.
For 40 years, the urban policy has poured billions into these neighborhoods to build schools, libraries, and climbing walls that sometimes end up in ashes. These young people are not the wretched of the earth, and in some aspects, they are privileged in terms of social policy. There’s no comparison between a young person from the suburbs and a young French person from Creuse or Lozère [remote and rural areas in the “dialogue du vide” — the dialogue of emptiness”]. If we look at social welfare, the benevolence of sports and the spectacle of society, from Kylian Mbappé to Mathieu Kassovitz, along with centers to support them, and media and cultural representations, it’s better to be born in Montfermeil [a Muslim suburb] than in Vesoul [in rural France].
The truth is that this youth is not abandoned, but disinherited. What’s the difference? It’s the difference between material and spiritual. These young people are disinherited because they have been deprived of our intangible heritage, a heritage that we ourselves have squandered. The underfunding of national education and mass culture teach them to hate France. Why would they love France when deprived of the two pillars of education and authority? The education system, after years of prioritizing quantity over quality, is falling apart on all fronts. And authority, because family authority is often deficient in these neighborhoods and has not been compensated by state authority, which is equally deficient.
We are witnessing the tragic consequences of an absence of authority on multiple levels. First, there are uprooted children growing up without guidance, ultimately immersed in drug trafficking, with an imagination influenced by urban mafias and the codes of American black neighborhoods. Then you add to that the continuous influx of migration, which brings disorder upon disorder, and you have the phenomenon of destabilization. On the other hand, the far left continues to believe in a convergence of struggles between the suburbs, the hipsters of eastern Paris, and the extreme-left activists who simulate revolution on the ruins of deconstruction and then return to their apartments in the heart of Paris. Do they think they will finally overthrow capitalism by watching the suburbs [where Muslims live] plunder stores and supermarkets, all broadcast live on social media?”
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