{"id":1946,"date":"2005-11-09T02:07:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T09:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/10\/doug-ireland-on-the-french-rioting\/"},"modified":"2005-11-09T02:07:43","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T09:07:43","slug":"doug-ireland-on-the-french-rioting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1946","title":{"rendered":"Doug Ireland on The French Rioting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Be sure to read Doug Ireland on the background and context of the French riots<\/a>. Here’s a sample:\n\n

As someone who lived in France for nearly a decade, and who has visited those suburban ghettos, where the violence started, on reporting trips any number of times, French_riots I have not been surprised by this tsunami of inchoate youth rebellion that is engulfing France. It is the result of thirty years of government neglect: of the failure of the French political classes — of both right and left — to make any serious effort to integrate its Muslim and black populations into the larger French economy and culture; and of the deep-seated, searing, soul-destroying racism that the unemployed and profoundly alienated young of the ghettos face every day of their lives, both from the police, and when trying to find a job or decent housing.<\/p>\n

To understand the origins of this profound crisis for France, it is important to step back and remember that the ghettos where festering resentment has now burst into flames were created as a matter of industrial policy by the French state. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing<\/a>. (Hat tip: Once Upon a Time<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Once you’re done with that, read Adrien Wing on the French rioting<\/a>. Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n

The French train their judges at a national judge school located in Bordeaux which I take my American summer students to visit each year. Students mainly in their 20s are admitted after scoring in the top few percentage points on a national test. They don’t become judges after extended careers as lawyers. Well, the French “baby judge”\u009d students are maybe 70-80% female at this point — a matter of some concern to the country with a historically male judiciary. I have even heard talk that maybe affirmative action, which does not exist in schools in France, will have to be considered in order to prevent the judiciary from becoming all female in a few years. Whenever we question the baby judges about the lack of racial diversity at the school, we get blank stares. “We are all French. This does not matter”\u009d or Well, all they have to do is score in the top percentages on the test”\u009d are among the responses.”\u009d I hope the country will realize that gender, racial and religious diversity on the bench needs to be a priority now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More.<\/a><\/pracut>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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