"The Weekly Standard reports that ethnic and religious tensions reached the boiling point in Paris last month:
On March 8, tens of thousands of high school students marched through central Paris to protest education reforms announced by the government. Repeatedly, peaceful demonstrators were attacked by bands of black and Arab youths--about 1,000 in all, according to police estimates. The eyewitness accounts of victims, teachers, and most interestingly the attackers themselves gathered by the left-wing daily Le Monde confirm the motivation: racism....
[Journalist Jaques] Julliard, writing in the Nouvel Observateur, expressed dismay at the lack of public outcry over this display of racial hatred. He added that the left had already made the mistake of not denouncing violence in schools or soaring crime rates. And he sharply rejected the view endorsed by most left-wing organizations and individuals that the violence was an expression of class struggle, a clash between rich and poor. "Anyone should be ashamed," Julliard wrote, "after all we went through in the 20th century, to offer such a coarse explanation. . . . There is no good and bad racism." [emphasis added]
As usual, the Left blames the victims, who, because they are they are white, are assumed to be "rich." Can you really blame the "poor" for violence against the rich?"
Rising ethnic and religious tensions? Bad behavior being excused in the name of ideological necessity? A blind eye being turned to rising anti-semitism? One could be excused for not being sure if this is the 21st century or the 1930's in Europe.
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