Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Deja Vu: Like "F-ck Tha Police" All Over Again...
The ruckus in France appears to have died down (or at least what little coverage it got in the US media has pretty much disappeared) but, based on how bonkers things got in NOLA real quickly after Katrina hit a couple months back, it's not inconceivable to me that something similar could happen in the US under the right circumstances. Could that explain the scant media focus here? After all you wouldn't want to give those who've been continually stepped on and forgotten by the government any ideas on how to respond to that kind of treatment, right? True or not, peep game:
Boing Boing's overview of French blogs' coverage of the riots.
Meanwhile other French bloggers were arrested.
Poplicks has the rap on the French riots. (related: rappers voice the frustrations of France's angry youth but are also blamed for "fueling" the riots.)
Crooks and Liars also has a couple good links to read on why France was burning.
And Kevin Drum links to info debunking the "clash of civilizations" storyline being peddled by much of the media as the impetus behind the riots.
Atrios argues that it's Connerly's France that's burning and links to another good Juan Cole post. (related: skanless commentary on the riots from one of France's more conservative politicians.)
TPM Cafe takes advantage of the Paris riots to "offer commentary that's ostensibly about France but really about America...."
Life on France's Urban Fringe. (via Ndidi)
Finally, retired American academic Roger Stevenson's take.
