Category Archives: paris riots

things are so crap now i dont really see how its going to get better. really people are their own worst enemies. granted you live in an environment which is racist and quite statist in general, you don’t want to keep quiet, but when part of the problem is that people dont understand you because they are ‘afraid’ of what they imagine your group identity to be, the last thing you want to do is go ahead and give them reason to think they were right in the first place.

all its going to do is make these people more discriminatory in future - oh yes those dodgy looking people - go around burning cars and churches - !
Stuff that starts out like this doesn’t end prettily - for anyone. its really starting to look pretty awful - i can’t really see how this is going to be smoothed over - perhaps on the surface - but underneath? as it already there is a sizeable set of opinion which is pointing how its all because those ‘foreigners’ can’t accept ‘Western values’. for fuck’s sake - not wanting violence is surely a universal value?

its also clear that the police using heavy-handed tactics is aggravating the situation but unfortunately clearly a lot of people feel they are in the ‘right’ so i dont see how the violence is going to lessen any time soon. also i cant see any useful analysis anywhere as the rhetoric appears to be bound up with laying blame and finding scapegoats. i think all that can be looked at later, the violence needs to stop now.

the paris riots dont seem to have generated that much interest - judging from the column inches..

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reading the reaction in mediasphere, things are quite worrying. references to ‘jihad’ are starting to abound.