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Friday, November 04, 2005

Tout l'enfer se casse lâchement

Pardon my French. Merci beaucoup to adaveine for helping us to understand what is going on in France right now. It is amazing how something like this can quietly build up over generations and then suddenly erupt. I did a little digging and found more reports and commentary here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Est-il grave?

I did try to come up with a suitable/witty quote for this issue, but all I could come up with was
"When you consider how hard it is to get people to treat each other justly when they are face to face, seeking to produce justice between social abstractions stretching back over the centuries is a truly ambitious undertaking. "

- Thomas Sowell
UPDATE: It's not just a problem in France I don't think, but all across Europe. For example, there have also been riots in Denmark. I suppose one could argue that the riots in Denmark have nothing to do with those in France, but you'd have a hard time convincing me of that.

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