The worst of the violence seems to have subsided, but the destruction has been considerable: As of yesterday 600 or more vehicles have been torched and nearly 500 buildings damaged, 74 of which were likewise set on fire, among them the Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar in Marseille. There have been at least 20 attacks on police barracks, and even one on the home of L’Hay-les-Roses mayor Vincent Jeanbrun. Rioters crashed a car onto his terrace and attacked his fleeing family with fireworks, putting his wife in hospital. There have been around 2,000 arrests, and as of yesterday perhaps 500 police injuries. Probably the intensity of the violence has been greater than in 2005, but there is hope at least that it will be of shorter duration, with less damage overall.
The right-thinking European press, in its deep originality, has blamed the unrest on racism and a “rhetoric of exclusion”, which we are asked to believe has “become completely normal in France”:
In everyday life, France is ostensibly a functioning multicultural society, but in the talk shows and on the opinion pages of Right-wing papers and websites, open racial warfare prevails. Here, hatred of ethnic minorities is mixed with Islamophobia and class conflict: inhabitants of the banlieues are, in in this view, the dirty opposite of good France. The entire Right wing of French politics sees migration as the country’s biggest problem, and hardly anybody can be found to contradict this view.
Perhaps the opinion columnists at Süddeutsche Zeitung need remedial lessons in how to use the internet, if they cannot find any voices in France denouncing French racism. Within seconds, I found this piece by literal Atlanticist agent Rokhaya Diallo, which works hard to reframe the rioting in American terms, as an antiracist uprising in the mould of the Floyd protests from 2020. “Nahel’s death,” Diallo writes, “is another chapter” in the “long and traumatic story” of French colonialism, racism and police violence towards minorities:
Whatever our age, many of us French who are descended from postcolonial immigration carry within us this fear combined with rage, the result of decades of accumulated injustice. This year, we commemorate the 40th anniversary of a seminal event. In 1983, Toumi Djaïdja, a 19-year-old from a Lyon banlieue, became the victim of police violence that left him in a coma for two weeks. This was the genesis of the March for Equality and Against Racism, the first antiracist demonstration on a national scale, in which 100,000 people took part.
For 40 years this movement has not stopped calling out the violence we see targeted at working-class neighbourhoods and more broadly black people and people of north African origin. The crimes of the police are at the root of many of the uprisings in France’s most impoverished urban areas, and it is these crimes that must be condemned first. After years of marches, petitions, open letters and public requests, a disaffected youth finds no other way to be heard than by rioting. It is difficult to avoid asking if, without so many uprisings in cities across France, Nahel’s death would have garnered the attention it has. And as Martin Luther King rightly said: “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
It goes without saying that such understandings were never extended to public demonstrations against the Corona hygiene regime. The state is firmly uninterested in hearing those kinds of voices, and Diallo is too.
In much the some vein, American-educated UN human rights spokesbot Ravina Shamdasani has used the protests to demand that France “seriously address the deep issues of racism and discrimination in law enforcement”. She’s also very concerned about the protesters and their unheard message, which has been carried by all major European press on front pages for days now:
We also emphasise the importance of peaceful assembly. We call on the authorities to ensure use of force by police to address violent elements in demonstrations always respects the principles of legality, necessity, proportionality, non-discrimination, precaution and accountability.
What incited the rioting was not the nefarious colonial past of France, and it is not so easily discounted as a random act of police racism either. On June 27th, police in Nanterre stopped a car driven by a 17 year-old of Algerian and Moroccan descent named Nahel Merzouk. When he tried to flee, one of the officers shot and killed him. This officer is now in custody and under investigation for manslaughter, but it’s far from clear he acted beyond his authority.
Beginning around 2012, and escalating in intensity through 2017, France has been subject to a series of terrorist attacks carried out by Islamic militants. These included not only the Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan massacres of 2015, which together took the lives of 148 people, but also vehicle attacks like that carried out in 2016 by the Tunisian driver of a cargo truck in Nice on Bastille Day, who was able to crush 86 people to death before security services could kill him. In the wake of these attacks, the French Government passed legislation permitting police to fire on motorists who flee traffic stops if they believe they pose a danger to others. France, in other words, responded to assaults on public life from self-identified Islamic militants by granting their police wider latitude in the use of force, extending to the shooting of noncompliant drivers like Merzouk.
Colonial sins are a very poor explanation for negative European experiences with the mass importation of foreigners from the developing world. Sweden had no colonies to speak of, but it has not been spared migrant violence since opening its borders in 2005. The consequence of migrant attacks is a steady brutalisation of society and the police, whose harsher methods are then freely reinterpreted as signs of racism and xenophobia in the next step of this tiresome game. It is the same with the rise of populist-Right parties in Europe, which are direct reactions to mass migration and its attendant social disorders. Alternative für Deutschland, a small Euro-sceptic party founded in 2012, was polling around 3% before Merkel’s wir-schaffen-das moment of 2015. In the wake of the Cologne sexual assaults months later, it surged to 13%. These political developments are subjected to the same disingenuous interpretation as escalating police force, and cited as evidence of the ambient racism to which migrant violence is merely a response.
The Leftist Green-adjacent France Insoumise party has published a lengthy tirade anticipating a new alliance between the ethnic minorities of the banlieues, victims of state violence, and the climate activists, who “resist the destruction of living things and the planet” and believe that this makes them police targets as well. John Keiger, writing in the Spectator, has also noticed this fascinating statement, and to it he adds the evidence of reports in Le Monde on the role of climate activists, anarchists and other extreme-Left groups in organising the rioters and directing their violence towards specific police and state targets. His conclusion, based partly on the rhetoric of the activists themselves, is that France may be facing a civil war.
I don’t think that’s right. Protests about carbon emissions, racism and colonialist sins are not sincere demands for a better and more just world, but they are not the pretence of internal seditionists bent on the overthrow of the state either. They are rallying cries in support of the globalist programme, and an appeal to the issues via which our political elite aim to free themselves finally from the constraints of their own native populations.
It’s no surprise to find American soft power behind some of these episodes, but U.S. influence is only one factor here. The postwar international order, founded around organisations like the United Nations and the European Union, bears the explicit mandate of counteracting nationalist politics, which are regarded as the root cause of the great world wars. Especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union, this globalist ethos has given rise to a whole world of densely interrelated political parties, NGOs and philanthropists, while also fostering an increasingly uniform and inward-looking elite political culture. These new elites hope to find in imported minorities a basis of popular support for globalism at home and a counterweight to the dreaded nativist Right. Most major Leftist and Green parties are mere instruments and expressions of this culture, as is any demonstration that is not immediately and brutally repressed.
This is about power and they don’t care. They’ll vaccinate billions and take years of heightened mortality in stride. They’ll burn whole cities to the ground if they have to.
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That asteroid can’t come soon enough, can it?
A science fiction story I remember from the past starts with aliens landing on earth who then immediately proceed to butcher and process humans for some mysterious purpose in vast numbers. All attempts to stop or otherwise fight them fail because of their superior technology and the doom of mankind seems a certainty until someone finally manages to communicate with them. At this point, they immediately stop these activities and sincerely apologize for the unintendend massacre. The problem was that they had entirely failed to realize that humans were something other than contaminated water.
Some certainly aren’t.
Me next for the suicide booth, Bender.
Bloody hell, this is getting dark!
Well, I’ll be certainly be AVOIDing them with my charitable donations from now on.
I accidentally blundered into their donation site, not realising it was an echo-chamber blog, and asked a neutral question exactly what they fund, and whether the White Hats were involved, which led to my being set upon by a gang of virtue-signallers with blue-and-white profile filters. I made my excuses and left.
Can charities (or their employees) be held responsible for misappropriation of funds? If so, this would seem be a splendid opportunity to do that: It’s a safe bet that nobody who ever donated money to Oxfam desired to commission an Oxfalish: English Expertly Undone For The Postcolonial Age report.
It’s pretty clear that big charities have been engaged and proactive in furthering political agendas for decades. How individuals view giving money to charities is up to them but the huge amounts given to them via government regulated lottery monies and directly awarded tax payers money is matter of great concern.
But what should we expect from a fake Tory Party?
What language isn’t “The Language of a Colonising Nation”?
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What utter planks! At least people like this don’t work for the BBC and civil service. Wait a minute…
“The introduction apologises for being in and about the English language.”— Quite so! In future, please submit your work (woke) in Sanskrit or Coptic.
Or Klingon. More people would understand that, and as it’s the language of a fictitious “colonising nation”, presumably it would be OK for the crackpots at OXFAM.
“In future, please submit your work (woke) in Sanskrit or Coptic…”
because none of the rest of us want to firkin read it.
Perzakerly!
How about Esparanto?
The people at Oxfam must get smacked of their tits on crack, then hold a meeting to discussing the best ways to p off their donors!
I stopped supporting Oxfam years ago when they changed their job description to ‘fighting the anthropogenic 0.001% of a gaseous plant food that keeps everything on this planet alive.’
When they are not using charitable donations to pay for prostitutes they are using them to insult their donors. They pay their CEO a six figure sum to come up with this?
That’s just like the former Silicon Valley Bank: Once a single woketard has managed to get into a position where he can influence employment decisions, he’s going to use that to hire more woketards doing ever more woketarding at the expense of the company until all of the productive staff has been replaced with drones issueing language guides and engaging in performance politics celebrating other woketards for also doing this. This continues until the money has run out. Then, the parasites jump ship and find another host company/ organization.
This is Andrew Bridgen’s speech from this afternoon. You Tube have already taken it down because it’s too much truth for them to handle. Can’t be getting that much contradictory information to the masses now…But if you’re quick you will see at the very start somebody taps the guy with the white hair in front, he goes over to the other side and speaks to somebody and they all get up and leave! So Andrew is left speaking to a near empty room once more. Disgusting! They should be obliged to remain out of basic courtesy! And the guy who replies to Bridgen has nothing in the way of come-back and is a right gonk. See what you think;
https://odysee.com/@AwakenWiki:c/Andrew-Bridgen—Efficacy-of-the-mRNA-covid-19-booster,-17-Mar-2023:e
I don’t have the time to watch this completely ATM (it’s about 27 minutes), but thanks for posting it.
Actually I haven’t watched it all either, just skipped it along. My preference went instead with a dose of The Walking Dead.
Government minister does not answer any of Bridgen’s questions. Same old safe and effective. One day this is going to bite them on the arse.
It’s both disgraceful and insulting in equal measure. I listen to these sock puppets and just think they cannot possibly believe what they’re saying, they’re just toeing the party line.
Extraordinary if true. I have never heard before of a Member of Parliament, speaking in Parliament, being censored. I listened to him speaking on BBC Parliament Channel. What he says is based on ONS data. It at least merits a response from government if they have a different interpretation. Otherwise the impression is that they just don’t want to hear dissent.
Well I’m disgusted because it comes off as being blatantly snubbed by your fellow colleagues. It’s both rude and unprofessional. Also, if this is the sort of treatment Bridgen has now come to expect, does it come as any surprise that these same MPs have also zero interest in listening to the public’s concerns, the vax injured or even contemplating starting an investigation into the safety of the products that they bullied, threatened and coerced people to get, all based on lies and fraud? Their behaviour in Parliament just speaks volumes of their attitude and disinterest towards the British public. I’m not even a UK resident anymore and I feel very, very pissed off watching this.
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Nations are colonising, by definition.
Oh well, language is difficult and should be banned, to avoid offending people who are a bit dense.
So, as I haven’t colonised anything, I shall now write that in my language, as follows:
Erdle flinsbuk shert’bhi grees klus.
Literally, anything colonised have not I myself.
Hope that hasn’t offended anyone.
Does the guide have lots of euphemisms for sexual offences?
Aren’t Oxfam up to their necks in pedophilia and child abuse in those countries that they claim are victims of colonial power. I’m wondering how they square that particular circle. Perhaps they could take a leaf out if the good book which advises “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” What is it with these hypocritical parasites that makes them think we should do as they say and not as they do.
Watch this 6min video from Truth Be Told posted 2 hours ago, thanking Andrew Bridgen. Very moving.
https://twitter.com/CoviLeaksCVVAM
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The Newspeak is getting more Orwellian by the day, it seems.
I stopped donating when the prostitute scandal broke. Also our local Oxfam shop has a very peculiar smell which I don’t like and the ‘holier than thou’ attitude of some of the staff adds to my dislike of it.
This latest stuff is ridiculous. So, it’s nevermore for me and I’ll bet they’ll lose donations.
As per Oxfam’s Annual Report and Accounts 2021/2022, the salary of the current CEO Dr. Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah is reportedly well over ₤120,936 and the company’s turnover is ₤400,000,000. After the CEO, the highest salary is of CFO who is paid around ₤108,703. Isn’t the term ” pounds” a left over from Colonial rule? Just saying
A charity that can afford to spend donated funds on producing such guff, clearly has forgotten what it is for, it appears in common with many organisations it believes it is more important to virtue signal, rather than actually perform the job it is supposed to be doing.
I will no longer donate money, clothes, things to Oxfam, neither will I purchase from its shops, clearly it is spending charitable donations on too many staff, with too little to do whilst the poor and diseased suffer for Oxfams vanity.
So the English language didn’t exist before the English set up colonies? Gosh, the standard of history teaching is really impressive.
I know. And Yorkshire folk spoke something quite different from Viking before those colonisers showed up. B*stards.
And don’t get me started on the French
Not even the french like the french.
English colonies had by-and-large ceased to exist by the 1980s, ie, about 30 years ago. Hence, today’s decolonizers are preaching to an echo chamber filled with themselves about a supposed issue which doesn’t exist anymore. Or actually, exists in the exact opposite of what it used to be: Colonization is nothing but immigration of foreigners with the intent to settle permanently in the area they immigrated into. Usually, they don’t care very much about the natives and just themselves up exactly (or as exactly as possible) as things used to be in the place they came from. Considering this, the England of 2023 is a heavily colonized nation, to a degree where large parts are barely recognizable as English at all. There are even – although this is still officially denied – Sharia courts operating here handing out covert death penalities to people they deem religious transgressors and the police is backing them.
Silly buggers.
NEVER allow this absurd wokery to influence your world view. At all times choose your own words and thoughts, for if you let these insidious central planners choose them for you then your freedom is LOST, and as Joni Mitchell would say “You don’t know what you got till it’s gone”.
Oxfam’s owes its existence to the UK’s colonial heritage as do many other charities. Oxfam is known for its high salaries in the sector but I suspect if you look at its diversity record, most of its leaders will be the children and grandchildren of those very same colonalists from whom they derive their privileged positions and continue to benefit from albeit by trashing their legacy.
I suspect those who wrote the guide know very little about history besides what they have been told.
Human history shows that the Western culture has created the most free, richest, equal and diverse civilization in the history of the world.