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I Don't Care About The Riots In France

The Central Scrutinizer

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This thought occured to me while watching CBS Sunday Morning today. They had a story about the riots occuring in France this past week. I fast forwarded through it, because I really, truly don't care.

When they first started a week or two ago, I started to read the story in the WSJ (or NY Times, I don't recall which). I got to the part about "why" - apparently the government wants to change the law to allow companies to fire workers under the age of 26. I stopped there. They're rioting about this? Why shouldn't a company be able to fire workers? At any age? I read no further. I didn't need to. The rioters are clearly idiots, and I can't be bothered to care about idiots, or their causes.

So there it is. I don't care about your "cause". Grow up. Get over it.
 
Well I care about very little of any of the news I see, hear or read about but I like to be informed.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
This thought occured to me while watching CBS Sunday Morning today. They had a story about the riots occuring in France this past week. I fast forwarded through it, because I really, truly don't care.

When they first started a week or two ago, I started to read the story in the WSJ (or NY Times, I don't recall which). I got to the part about "why" - apparently the government wants to change the law to allow companies to fire workers under the age of 26. I stopped there. They're rioting about this? Why shouldn't a company be able to fire workers? At any age? I read no further. I didn't need to. The rioters are clearly idiots, and I can't be bothered to care about idiots, or their causes.

So there it is. I don't care about your "cause". Grow up. Get over it.
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Though not as callous as your own goodself, I too find the riots a...well riot! A joke in other words.

The spoiled Frenchies need to get with the program and wake up to the competitive world in which we live.

Jesus H.

(ETA: That last bit was not my signature but rather an ending curse. :) )
 
DanishDynamite said:
Though not as callous as your own goodself, I too find the riots a...well riot! A joke in other words.

The spoiled Frenchies need to get with the program and wake up to the competitive world in which we live.

Jesus H.

(ETA: That last bit was not my signature but rather an ending curse. :) )
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Yeah, it sounds like they want their government to protect them from the mean old world. 20 years from now, they'll wake up, and wonder why the Chinese are kicking their asses.
 
I don't know a whole lot about the riots just yet, mostly just what I catch on the radio on my way to/from work. Can anyone toss up a link or something to a summary of the actual situation? Those French, so wacky!
 
I think it's not so much a case of the government protecting them, as the government taking away a right that people are used to.

Whether the government are correct or not is neither here nor there in the minds of the minority of people who are prepared to riot over such an issue, but who knows how it has been presented to them by the media?

In defence of the rioters, however, you gotta respect their desire to protect their civil liberties. If they're rioting over this, imagine what they'd do over something really important...
 
Also when you look into the events in more detail it would appear that the protests about the law are being used as an excuse to riot by people not intrested in the protest in the first place, from this report:

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These, though, were not the peaceful marchers of earlier in the day but youths who had come intent on violence, seeking running battles with police.

Earlier in the afternoon, hundreds of thousands of protesters had gathered at Place d'Italie in the south of the city.

But the festival atmosphere quickly darkened as a small group of troublemakers began to target trade union stewards trying to keep order on the march.


...snip... once they reached their destination in the eastern city centre, most student demonstrators - and the workers who came out in support of them - quickly left as more youths descended on the square, with the sole aim of picking a fight with the riot police.

...snip...

It is the wrong image of French youth... This is not us
Thierry
Student protester

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