Les Youngs Have Un Point
Identifying the goals of a French protest is like pondering the physics inside a black hole. France has long celebrated the pageantry and drama of protest movements even when the goal of the fucking thing is very much TBD.

Identifying the goals of a French protest is like pondering the physics inside a black hole. France has long celebrated the pageantry and drama of protest movements even when the goal of the fucking thing is very much TBD.
Identifying the goals of a French protest is like pondering the physics inside a black hole. France has long celebrated the pageantry and drama of protest movements even when *the goal of the fucking thing *is very much TBD. And so it is with France’s current protests-cum-riots: They are either about school funding, or police brutality, or Palestine, or immigration, or inequality generally, or like…farm…unions…regulations about unions or farmers or something. And of course racism: There’s either too much racism or too little or possibly just the wrong kind.
While only a lunatic would co-sign the goals of such an undefined movement, which is clearly as much about youthful rebellion as anything else. But a solid point is available to * les jeunes de Paris* should they choose to make it. Though France is not a legitimate target for any “neoliberal hellscape” argument — they have the
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